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With deep bows, thewomen walked to the double doors and quietly showed themselves out. Just then Serena sensed a familiar sensation start to grow in her mind. “You agreed to bring me here,” he whispered,“even when you knew that your original masters would likely put you to death?”Bending forward a bit, Xanthus placed his hands flat atop the table. He went to the bathroom and shaved and cleaned up a little.

Snow soon washed over thescene, and rapidly forming drifts left no trace of what had happened. But like the other times, the sword struck nothing. “Do you fully understand your duties?” the voices asked. “JIN’SAI,” HECTOR SAID.