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Ja "I am not the first Kyn to co in the patterns of his thoughts The Kyn who questioned him uarded secrets"

"Do you know any Kyn who can do that?" When he shook his head, Christian studied the historian "If the Kyn who got here before us ood one IX-rated Confessional won’t get the guy arrested At best there’d be aby the local papers and TV stations He’d probably get kicked off the museum board"

"Which would destroy his reputation" Jamys reached out to Gifford and touched his shoulder He intended to co he knew about the man who had paid him for his silence, but as soon as he connected with the professor’shis ability at the wall as he’d done with Chris, Ja tendrils of his mind in all directions In a distant corner of the huap in the barrier, and slipped into it

You will shoho you are, Ja it from within with his own ability

A parade of hts: a slave-collared thrall, the leader of a slave rebellion, a haughty courtier, a devout Te monk, a defiant sailor Each of the males had the saaunt or sleek by turns but never aged Each carried the haray eyes an eternal fire burned

Jael a secretive explorer, and the explorer a reclusive far ain to work as a train conductor, a wealthy business showman, a dreadlocked conized the arb of the sailboat owner, and reached deeper

The i himself to suit the demands of each new era, but he had never been happy He carried a terrible burden, one he shared with his human kin, who had sloindled away over the centuries So, so wondrous and terrible that had sent hiether the last of his o, the three hts made immortal like him--

Jaered as he was forced out of the professor’s e of power unlike any Kyn ability he had ever encountered

Gifford’s eyes grew unfocused "You are clever, boy," he said, his voice dropping to a resonant baritone "But I have wiped clean fro he knew of Hollander and the Horde You will learn nothing from him"

Christian stepped back "I know you" Her voice shook as she added, "You were in the tolowed as he turned his head toward her, but the voice Jamys heard speak next came from inside his own mind "Live, and you kill a hundred, a thousand, a rew icy "Kill her, and you shall save theazed into the historian’s eyes "Touch her," he said clearly, "and you will never again live another life on this earth"

Gifford began to laugh and shake as his eyes rolled back into his head A rabbed hi his head "Okay, I think the professor’s had enough"

Jamys crouched down beside her and checked thewas regular and his heart beat steadily "He is asleep"

Christian picked up the journal Gifford had dropped along with a page that had fallen out of it, handing the journal to Jae "This is athe spot, but there’s a ship’s course marked on it from what looks like Jamaica to Florida" She showed it to him

He eyed the date and some words scribbled at the bottom of the map "This had to be the final course of the Golden Horde The pirate must have drawn it for the priest before he died"

"If we follow the ship’s course, ain" When Jamys handed it to her, she turned to the front leaf before she went still

Jale of red-bordered black paper in the front of the journal In the center were two inverted, overlapping scarlet triangles with the letters LHS staold across them "What is that?"

"It’s a bookplate Collectors use the their personal libraries" She closed the journal and stood, her shoulders rigid "I know the guy who sold this to Gifford"

"How could you know this ave him a bleak look "I used to work for hihtclub had been cleared and closed, arned positions throughout the stronghold In the largest of the conference rooms Burke met with the mortal household staff to brief thearrison in the lists to do the same

Lucan remained in his office to review the last week of video recordings fro some clue as to the identity of the Kyn who had tampered with hisunusual, save for thekept under guard at a nearby resort hotel