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. While it
is true that I stand to gain if I cooperate, I will also undergo
considerable risk. Of course, I want my freedom and the restoration of the
Keep. It is almost a fair trade. But he also asks a quitclaim on the
vendetta. What assurance have I that this means anything here, and that the
hierarchy of Amber will not hunt me down as a troublemaker afterward? He
cannot speak for the others when he operates on the sly this way."
Somehow, it had become a question addressed to me, and since it was a
very good question to which I did not really have an answer, I was glad that
the ty'iga had something to say:
"I believe that I can persuade you that it would be in your best
interest to agree to accompany them and to render every assistance you can,"
she offered.
"Pray, begin," Jasra told her.
"I would have to speak with you in private on this matter."
Jasra smiled, out of her love for intrigue, I am certain.
"It is agreeable to me," she said.
"Mandor, force her to say it now," I said.
"Wait!" Jasra declared. "I will have this private conversation or you
can forget about my help."
I began wondering just how much help Jasra really represented if she
couldn't call upon the Fount to dispose of Jurt, should that become our
biggest problem. True, she knew the Keep. But I didn't even know for certain
how accomplished a sorceress she might be
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