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jarvorus paused. That's right, he said softly.
The hatred that poured out from At was an almost physical force.
From Jael, there was still a puzzled, angry silence she might not have been
able to hear At's words.
jarvorus spoke again. You would have to help me . . . by allowing it. If
you choose to die, it may be that you can thwart the sorcery.
The Words do not say how the One is to die. But my Master's plan calls for
your unwilling death, for your defeat.
If you give yourself, at a time of your choosing, you may not be defeated. I
do not know what the prophecies say about this, but ... He hesitated. There
was much he did not know. He was making many
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guesses, and hoping that Jael would agree with them, and that they would be
right.
He continued haltingly, It may even be that ... you can be saved, in death.
If you can reach out ... if you can find Dream Mountain as the ifflings once
found it, as the dragons find the Final Dream Mountain...
perhaps you will be able to reach your friends the dragons... then.
Perhaps? hissed At. Perhaps?
Jarvorus walked slowly around the imprisoned riggers, gazing at Jael in her
cell; and studying At, half concealed within the net, along with the
fluttering green rigger; and turning at last to Hodakai. I did not speak
truth to you, when first we met, he said to Hodakai.
Especially regarding myself, and Rent. The rigger-spirit flickered in his
jar, but said nothing. He turned back to Jael and said, Here is truth. I can
promise nothing-except freedom.
Death, said At; and from the spark in Jael's eye, it seemed that she'd heard
him.
Death, jarvorus agreed. But perhaps not in vain. jarvorus paused.
Jael... it is because I have shared in your thoughts, and known you...
that I have decided to offer this. You have shown me a way I did not know
before. He peered into Jael's thoughts. He saw fear there, and distrust.
But also a willingness to listen.
I do not blame you for distrusting me. But there is no other escape from what
Rent and the Nail have planned.
At interrupted, his voice echoing strangely. jarvorus shifted the underweb
slightly so that At could be heard more easily. -you say not in vain. You
offer vague promises.
Why should we believe you?
Because you have no other hope. I offer no promises, except freedom for Jael.
It may be the final release-the final death.
Jarvorus hesitated, trying to find certainty among all the uncertainties in
what he was suggesting. The Masters, the Nail and
Rent, will kill her anyway. That is certain. But her death now, at
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her choosing, not theirs, will strike a blow against their plans.
Against their sorcery. As, I believe, you struck a blow once before.
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The others stared at him.
They have not forgotten the Black Peak! Not at all. Yes, I heard you tell of
it. And I wish to help you defeat them again.
Why? Jael whispered.
jarvorus sat up, gazing at her. He said, in a deep, throaty voice, I
do not like them. I do not like what they do. I wish to ...
hurt them.
At answered in slow, soft words. By deceiving her, as you deceived her once
already? How do we know this isn't precisely the way the
Enemy plans to kill her?
jarvorus pondered that. He looked at Hodakai, whose nervous dance had
stopped. He looked at At, who was studying him with fierce, purplish eyes.
He looked at the small green rigger, who had quieted and was peering intently
back at him. And he looked at Jael, who was not looking at him at all, but
staring into space. And he said, Hodakai, you know something of the Nail's
plans. You know that they plan to take her into battle, and to kill her
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