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He smiled. "You know, my mother would really be useful in there," he
said. "She knows more about the Fount than I do."
"No!" I said. "She tried, to kill me. ".
"Easy, man. Easy," he said. "Hear me out."
"Besides, she lost to Mask last time they met. That's why she's a
coatrack."
"All the more reason for her to be wary now. Anyway, it had to be
trickery, not skill. She's good. Mask must have surprised her. She'd be a
real asset, Merle."
"No! She wants all of us dead!"
"Details," he explained. "After Caine, the rest of you are just
symbolic enemies. Mask is a real one, who took something away from her and
still has it. Given the choice, she'll go after Mask."
"And if we're successful, she'll turn on Amber afterward."
"Not at all," he said. "That's the beauty of my plan.''
"I don't want to hear about it. "
"Because you already know you'll agree, right? I just figured a way to
solve all your problems. Give her the Keep after it's liberated, as a kind
of peace offering, to forget her differences with you guys."
"Just hand her this terrible power?"
"If she were going to use it against you, she'd have done it a long
time ago. She's afraid to employ it in the extreme. With Kashfa down the
tubes, she'll grab at the chance to salvage something. That's where the
value lies."
"You really think so?"
"Better Queen of the Keep than a coatrack in Amber
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