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On the other hand, I wanted this thing settled now, and one more adept
could make the difference.
"Nayda," I said, "are you planning something that could be damaging to
Amber?"
``No," she replied.
"Mandor, what do ty'iga swear by?" I inquired.
"They don't," he said.
"What the hell," I said. "How much time do you want?"
"Give us ten minutes," she told me.
"Let's take a walk," I said to Mandor.
"Surely," he agreed, tossing another metal ball toward Nayda. It joined
the others in orbit about her, a little above waist level.
I fetched a key from my desk drawer before departing. And as soon as we
were in the hall I asked him, "Is there any way Jasra could free her?"
"Not with the additional circuit of confinement I established on the
way out," he replied. "Not many could figure a way past it, and certainly
not in ten minutes."
"She's just full of secrets, that damned ty'iga," I said. "Kind of
makes me wonder who's really the prisoner here."
"She's only trading some bit of knowledge for Jasra's cooperation," he
said. "She wants the lady to accompany us if she can't go herself, since it
will mean extra protection for you."
"Then why can't we be present?"
"Nothing that I learned from her sheds any tight on this," he said.
"Well, since I have a few minutes, there is a small errand I want to
run
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