Keyes, Greg - Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone 04 by Keyes Greg

Author:Keyes, Greg [Keyes, Greg]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-09-06T19:48:33+00:00

She closed her eyes. Nothing; just another stupid thing I’ve done. Cazio, be as smart as I think you are.

“The Hel rune can’t help those in the south. I’l see what my visions can tel me about what the Church is up to. Is there anything else?”

“Not that I know of, Majesty.”

“Thank you, Duke. I’d better rest now.” She met her arilac on a heather-covered down overlooking an azure sea. The air was warm and wet and a little dirty-feeling.

The arilac seemed more human each time they met, although she stil shone unnatural y at times.

“You were outmaneuvered,” the woman said. “With the law of death broken, the Hel rune is stronger than even I suspected.”

“You should have warned me,” Anne replied.

The arilac raised a fiery eyebrow. “That would have been an insult to your intel igence. If you could see the results of what he saw, how could you not imagine it wasn’t possible for him to do the same?”

“But when does it end?” Anne asked. “If I had seen the trap, couldn’t he have seen me seeing it? And so on, into utter madness?”

“Yes and no. As you’ve learned, the future isn’t a fixed thing if you can see it. But it has a path and momentum. When the Hel rune saw that your army would march the way it did, and you saw that he had seen that, you might have done a number of things.

You might have decided not to go that way, or not march at al , or bring thousands more with you—or what you did: try to turn the trap against itself. The Hel rune would have been shown al these paths, but dimly, and one would have seemed infinitesimal y brighter. In turn, his possible reactions—abandon the plan, send more men, and so forth—would be even more contingent, first because your choice was one of dozens, then because his was. That’s why you didn’t see the reversal of the trap: It was a wispy thing, unnoticeable. For him to see the outcome of his reversal I would cal impossible, which is why you managed to escape. So to answer your question, your duel with the Hel rune went as many strokes as it could, and he won. When you are in ful mastery of the power, you might see one step farther. Might.”

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