'Who has to try to kill you?' said Pio, who had stood silently just within the doorway to Mithadan's room. She paused, considering the shape-changer, 'And must you be thinking of dragons just before the attempt to make it work? Or does your mind pull up the image needed to deflect the attempt to kill you from creatures it has encountered before?'
She waited for Bird to digest what she had asked.
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Eldest, that’s what I am . . . I knew the dark under the stars when it was fearless - before the Dark Lord came from Outside.
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