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Knowing he hadn’t a second to lose, Xanthus mounted the horse behind the prince. He limped to the barn and snuggled into a pile of dry sweetgrass and went to sleep. His strong-lookinghands lay folded in his lap. You might have to control him as it goes about itswork.

“He is the Zorian chieftain’s second son. The attack on the Citadel would fall under Shailiha’s direction. But as I said, it was amasquerade—the vial was in my chambers. “Very well,” Xanthus said.