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"Challenge?" Kynyr pulled away from her. "What do you mean?
"Wild Cousins' Courtship. You have to accept my challenge within seven days or
stop stealing kisses forever."
Kynyr blinked, his lips parted, and he looked stunned.
"Right. I accept challenge. What now? I've barely started reading about it.
Todd explained it a bit, but not nearly enough. He wanted to know why I asked
about it."
"Go ahead and tell him, Kynyr. Tell anyone you wish to."
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Kady could see the improvement in his gaze, the way he steadied when she
distracted him from his grief, and it warmed her heart to see it.
"What do we do next?"
"I have to Call Courtship, which I'm not ready to do yet.
But I'll do it soon, I promise."
"Then we mate."
"If you can catch me, Kynyr. I don't intend to make it easy on you."
"I'll catch you so fast it will take your breath away."
"I'm sure you will." Kady kissed him.
* * * *
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The closer Malthus got to Hell's Widow, the thicker the smoke became. His
necromancer gifts could not tell him how close the fire was or how strong it
had become; however, he could make fairly accurate guesses based upon the
nearness of the living and the dead. Malthus extended his powers in a broad,
high-level scan, practically daring the mages attached to the Sharani garrison
to detect his presence. With the death of Prince Mephistis de Waejonan four
years ago, Malthus
Tyrins had become recognized as the most powerful sa'necari in existence,
possibly the most powerful since Waejonan himself. His fears for Heironim gave
rise to anger.
"If someone set this fire to harm him, they'll pay with their souls as well as
their lives."
Malthus' scan found no fire-killed animals, which suggested the fire had not
spread to the forest.
He had known Heironim since they were both unblooded boys hungry for their
first rites. Like himself, Heironim was a bastard; but unlike Malthus,
Heironim had been gotten on one of Sidera's pleasure slaves by a high caste
sa'necari who was visiting at the time. Heironim's father, Lord Traxton, never
bothered to recognize him, although the mon had had a habit of requesting
guest right with slaves and nibari who were in season so that he could leave a
string of bastards in his wake.
While the getting of bastards was a common practice among the sa'necari, who
tended to be infertile by age thirty; the refusal to legitimize their
offspring was not.
Heironim had worked for or with Malthus from the time that they first mastered
human weapons. Mastering the weapons of their adversaries had been Sidera's
idea. Malthus
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respected and loved his mother for her brilliance. It had served both myn
well. When Heironim's father refused to recognize him, the two myn, who were
just thirteen-year-old boys at the time, ambushed Lord Traxton, and shot him
so full of poisoned arrows that his body bristled like a porcupine.
As Lord Traxton lay dying, Malthus had instructed Heironim in one of the more
arcane versions of mortgiefan, acted as his assistant, and helped him take
fully three-quarters of his father's shattered soul and all of his powers.
Afterward
Heironim had gratefully become Malthus' sworn mon, pledging fealty to him as
he were a lord of old. Malthus had accepted that and then stepped beyond it by
pledging himself to Heironim as his spiritbrother.
Malthus reached the outskirts of the town late in the afternoon and found a
barricade formed of wagons drawn across the street. Six huge Sharani guardsmyn
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manned it.
One of them stepped forward with her hand outstretched to halt him.
"You can't go in. The fire is still out of control."
"I need to find out if my brother is all right."
"Which section is he in?"
"The warehouse district."
"Fire hasn't spread that far yet. You can go in, but you'll have to swing
wide. Six square blocks have gone up."
"Where did the fire start?"
"Red Lantern section of the Blood District. Garrison mages are saying it had
arcane origins."
Arcane origins? Have our enemies found us?
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At a gesture from the sergeant in charge, the barricade opened to let him
pass, and Malthus entered the burning town. Water wagons trundled past him.
Mages and soldiers in the gold and green of Danae Mar'ajante moved about
there.
Malthus kept his head down. The ring of concealment that
Brandrahoon had given him had so far stood up to all attempts to find the
sa'necari beneath his human guise.
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