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. "That Pattern is going to have to wait its
turn."
"Even if it may represent the forces you need to deal with your other
problems?" she asked.
"Even so," I said. "It might turn into a lengthy enterprise, and I
don't believe I have the time for that."
"But you don't know that .for certain."
"True. But once I set foot on it, there's no turning back."
I did not add that I'd no intention of taking her to the primal
Pattern, then leaving her there on her own. After all, she had tried her
hand at king-making once. And if Brand had made it to the throne of Amber in
those days, she would have been standing right behind him, no matter what
she had to say about it now. I think she was about to ask me to deliver her
to the primal Pattern then but realized that I'd already considered it and
rejected it. Not wanting to lose face by asking and being refused, she
returned to her original argument.
"I suggest you make time now," she said, "if you do not wish to see
worlds torn up about you."
"I didn't believe you the first time you told me that," I answered,
"and I don't believe you now. I still think the increased shadow-storm
activity is probably an adjustment to the damage and repair of the original
Pattern. I also think that if we mess around with a new Pattern we don't
know anything about, we stand a chance of making things worse, not better-"
"I don't want to mess around with it," she said
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