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Before it was over, two more died by Tristan’s hand. In his customary style, he laughingly told Tristan that if the roles were reversed, hewould do the same. “Yes!” he shouted back. Pushing two envelopers aside, Einar walked from the cone’s darkness and into the midday light.

Aeolus had also been right about something. “Tell me,” he asked, “are you reallyas good as they say?”“Yes,” Aeolus answered. t, the boys believed in a world safe for Democracy; Hibben believed in the Fourteen Points,he believed in The War To End War. “The Guild and the Ones are at war! I sawan entire army of the Ones destroyed by the Heretics! Why would bitter enemies like yourselvesgather together?”A man stepped forward.