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. It needs the warriors to guard the
gem from the outside while the women guard it from inside.
So, to keep the women happy, it brought - "
"Us!" said Tanin, rounding upon the dwarf in fury.
"Now, don't be hasty," Dougan said with a cunning grin.
He glanced at Palin out of the corner of his eye. "You're
very clever, laddie. You take after your uncle, yes, you do.
Who was the gem guarding itself from, if you're so smart?
What would it have to fear?"
"The one person who'd been searching for it for
thousands and thousands of years," said Palin softly.
Everything was suddenly very, very clear. "The one who
made it and gambled it away. It has hidden from you, all
these centuries, staying in one place until you got too close,
then disappearing again. But now it is trapped by the
wizard. No matter what it does, it can't escape. So it set
these guards around itself. But you knew the women were
unhappy. You knew the Graygem HAD to allow them to
have what they wanted - "
"Good-looking men. They'd let no one else in the
castle," said Dougan, twirling his moustache. "And, if I do
say so myself, we fill the bill," he added proudly.
"But who is he?" said Sturm, staring from Palin to the
dwarf in confusion
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