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"Don't these Golden Circle treaties usually give us the right to move troops
through a client kingdom's territory with very little in the way of
preliminaries?"
"Yes," she said.
I suddenly recalled that tough-looking emissary of the Crown I'd met at
Bloody Bill's, who had paid his tab in Kashfan currency. I decided I did not
really want to know how close in point of time that was to the assassination
that had made this recent arrangement possible. What struck me with more
immediate force was the picture that now emerged: It looked as if Random had
just blocked Jasra and Luke from recovering their usurped thronewhich, to be
fair, I guess Jasra had usurped herself, years ago. With all that usurping
going on, the equities of the thing were more than a little hazy to me. But
if Random's ethics were no better than those which had gone before, they
were certainly no worse. It looked now, though, as if any attempt on the
part of Luke to regain his mother's throne would be met by a monarch who
possessed a defense alliance with Amber. I suddenly felt willing to bet that
the terms of the defense provisions of the alliance included Amber's
assistance in internal troubles as well as help against outside aggressors.
Fascinating. It sounded as if Random were going to an awful lot of
trouble to isolate Luke from his power base and any semblance of legitimacy
as a head of state
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