Riane recognized thefamiliar high, angular helm with its finbat ears and evil-looking horns, the menacing row of alloy talonsarching from the thick-ridged brow. Then she looked up, blinking, and saw Kurgan, a vulpine grin on hisface, the Veil in his arms. You see what Horolaggia has done, usurped the Malasocca. Eleana glanced behind them as if she couldalready sense their pursuers.
I have been coming here without incident since I was a little girl. Stay, he said. The thought of being subject to Makk-tuub's outsized lusts made her ill. And the books were all, or almost all, oldbooks; books of magic.
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