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Whether or not that is so, Garath did capture it with a
device of two crystals - one to find and hold it, the other
to counter its magic."
"That's what the wizard said," Chestal Thicketsway in-
terrupted, sipping from a goblet of warm, sweetnog the
'Irda had provided. "Only he said there was one
crystal -"
"Hush," Glenshadow snapped. "Just listen."
"Gargath held it for a time," the Irda continued. "Then
it was lost when the city was besieged by gnomes, with
great siege engines."
"So that is what those junkheaps are," the kender com-
mented.
This time it was Chane who hushed him. The dwarf
reached across the table, grasped the kender's tunic, and
lifted him off his stool. "Just shut up and listen!" he de-
manded.
The Irda continued undaunted. "One legend has it that
when the graystone was freed, its magic caused some of
the gnomes to become dwarves and kender, thus origi-
nating the two races."
"Rubbish," Chess snapped. "No kender's akin to
dwarves, and we sure didn't come from gnomes."
"Rust and corruption! Chane chimed. "Dwarves were
here first. Everybody knows that."
"Will the two of you shut up!" Glenshadow rasped, his
voice the stuff of blizzards. "Just... shut up!"
"But I've been slandered," Chess said.
The wizard's eyes glinted like ice
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