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. What's; to be learned from that?"
I studied her face for some display of emotion, but my' relatives tend
to have too much control for such simple self betrayal.
"As I understand it," she said, "Brand was able to trump in when Corwin
was at the middle. "
"That's the way I understand it, too."
". . . So, when you reach.the center, I can come in" on a Trump."
"I suppose so. Then there will be two of us standing at the middle of
the Pattern."
``. . . And from there we will be in a position to go someplace we
could not reach from any other point in existence."
"That being?" I asked.
"The primal Pattern which lies behind it." "You're sure there is one?"
"There must be. It is in the nature of such a construct to be scribed
at a more basic level of reality as well as the mundane."
"And our purpose in traveling to that place?"
"That is where its secrets dwell; where its deepest magics might be
learned."
"I see," I told her. "Then what?"
"Why, there we might learn how to undo the trouble the thing is
causing," she answered.
"That's all?"
Her eyes narrowed.
"We will learn whatever we can, of course. Power is power, and
represents a threat until it is understood."
I nodded slowly.
"But right now there are a number of powers that are more pressing in
the threat department," I said
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