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She looked around the cramped cell, then back into Mallory’sblue eyes. If it is at all possible, take Serena alive, and capture the Scroll of the Vagaries. Then sheremembered his last words to her, just before he disappeared with the Darkling. “You may start,” he said.

You're lucky; oh, I wish I was a boy, she spluttered and ran upstairs. The fiveothers lay quietly at anchor nearby. But Rafe had promised that when the time came, he and hishorsemen would follow Tristan’s orders to the death. The spherical chamber was stunning.