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I asked Uncle Doj, Is he a liaison man, then? Between us and Lady?

He may tell you so. But he is a spy for the toog. He will not speak truth when a lie will do.

Uncle, old buddy, you and me and the old man need to sit down and try to talk the same language for a while. What do you think?

Uncle Doj grunted. Which could mean anything. The toog will not speak truth when a lie will do. Sindhu was amused.

The man struck me as a complete false face. I said, Goblin, find this guy some place to sleep. I shifted languages. And dont let him out of your sight.

I have chores enough already.

Somebodys sight. All right? I dont like him at all. I dont think Im going to like him even this much tomorrow morning. He smells like trouble.

One-Eye agreed. Big trouble.

Why dont we just chuck his hairy ass off the wall, then? Goblin can be pragmatic in the extreme.

Because I want to find out more about him. I think weve crawled right up to the edge of the mystery that has hung us up ever since we got here. Let him run free. Well play dumb and keep track of every breath he takes. I was sure I could count on the Speakers help with that.

My two wizards scowled and grumbled. Hard to blame them. They always end up carrying the load.

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I was snoring heroically down deep in our warrens, having gone to Nod confident I could sleep in. Tomorrow nobody would have the ambition to get up to any mischief.

I was down there so far and so far out of the way that not five people knew where to find me. I was on a mission to catch up on my sleep. If the end of the world came the guys could celebrate without me.

Somebody shook me.

I refused to believe it. It had to be a bad dream.

Murgen. Come on. You got to come see this.

No I didnt.

Murgen!

I cracked an eyelid. Im trying to get some sleep here, Bucket. Go away.

You aint got time. You got to come see.

I got to come see what?

Youll see. Come on.

There would be no winning this. He would pester me till I lost my temper, then get his feelings hurt. But the long climb to the sunshine was not an inducement to rise.

All right. All right. I got up and got myself together.

They didnt need to drag me out but I understood the impulse. Things had changed. Radically.