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. After all, I tried killing
his father and almost succeeded. Bleys and I were Brand's closest relatives,
and we'd turned against him."
She turned a penetrating gaze upon Mandor, who smiled.
"I understand," he stated, ``that right now Luke drinks with a Cat, a
Dodo, a Caterpillar, and a White Rabbit. I also understand that with his
mother a prisoner in Amber he is powerless against you."
She regarded me again.
"You have been busy," she said. "I try."
". . . So that it is probably safe for you to return," Mandor
continued.
She smiled at him, then glanced at me.
"Your brother seems well informed," she observed.
"He's family, too," I said, "and we've a lifelong habit of looking out
for each other."
"His- life or yours?" she asked.
"Mine," I replied. "He is my senior."
"What are a few centuries this way or that?" Mandor offered.
"I thought I felt a certain maturity of spirit," she noted. "I've a
mind to trust you further than I'd intended."
"That's very sporting of you," he replied, "and I treasure the
sentiment. . . ."
". . . But you'd rather I didn't overdo it?"
"Precisely."
"I've no intention of testing your loyalties to home and throne," she
said, "on such short acquaintance. It does concern both Amber and the
Courts, but I see no conflict in the matter."
"I do not doubt your prudence
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