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"I already know who I want to have with me," Luke said. "Yourself and
Merlin here."
"You are a curious individual," Julian observed. "But yes, I agree. I
would like to be there when whatever happens, happens."
Julian moved to the front of his tent, opened the flap, and summoned an
officer with whom he spoke for several minutes. In this space, I asked, "You
know what you're doing, Luke?"
"Certainly," he replied.
"I've a feeling this is a little more than playing it by ear," I said.
"Any reason why you can't tell me your plan?"
He appraised me for a moment, then said, "I only recently realized that
I, too, am a son of Amber. We've met, and we've seen that we're too much
like each other. Okay. That's good. It means we can do business, right?"
I allowed myself to frown. I wasn't sure what he was trying to say.
He clasped my shoulder lightly.
"Don't worry," he said. "You can trust me. Not that you have a great
deal of choice at this point. But you may a a bit later. I want you to
remember then that, whatever happens, you must not interfere."
"What do you think is going to happen?"
"We haven't the time or the privacy to speculate," he said. "So let it
go, and remember everything I said this evening."
"As you said, I haven't much choice at this point."
"I want you to remember it later," he said, as Julian lowered the flap
and turned toward us
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