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Seeing that the gemstone wassafe, Tristan finally relaxed. He knew that they were nervous;everyone was. Bending over, Traax unfastened the armor of one corpse and he looked at the warrior’s wounds. She was amadam—that much was true.

But how did one do that when the quarry was a ghost,able to vanish at will? Then there was the disturbing matter of the freshly cut branch and the blankscroll. Scraps of mist flew past cutting patches out of their view of the bay and the val eys and the shadowed moun-tains. “Stand back, my love,” he said gently. CHAPTER VIIIAS TRISTAN WALKED DOWN THE PALACE HALLS, IT SEEMED that the entire castle hadcome alive.