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She turned to the tall

Reach a filter glass styred out to this southwest

Where a son of iraqis was sinking a yellowed ball above the cliff

Paul turned with her said

I don't think it's how it either is it possibly ue

He's not a luutenant or companion

She said

And i can assure you

He hates the harcknons as bitterly as we do

Paul directed his attention to the clifs thinking

And it couldn't be gurney or duncan

Could it be one of the sublue tenants impossible

There are all from families that have been loyal to us for generations

For good reason

Jessica rubbed her forerehesensensing her own fatigue so much peatal l she looked out at the filled her yellow landscape studying it beyond the due cal grounds stretched a high offensed storage yard lines of spice cyos in it with still legged watch tower standing around it like so many startled spiders

She could see at least twenty storted yards of silos reaching out to the cliffs

The shshield war

Silos repeated stttering across the basin

Slowly the filted suunbeided itself beneath the horizon stars leaped out

She saw one bright star so low on a horizon

That it twininkled with a clear precise hythm

A trimbmbling of light

Blink blink blink blink blink

Paul ter beside side her in the dusky room

But jessica concentrated on that single bright star realizing that it was too low

That it must come from the shield wall cliff

Someone signalling

She tried to read the message

But it was in no coach

She had ever learned other lights had come on down on the plane

Beneath the cliff

Little yellows sped out against blue darkness

And one light off to their left gw w brighter began to wink back at the cliff very fast blink squad glimmer link

And it was gone

The false star in the cliff wked out out immediately signals

And they filled her with premanunition

Why were lights used to signal across the basin

She asked herself

Why couldn't they use the communications network

The answer was obvious

The community net was certain to be tapped now by agents of the duke later light signals could only mean that messages were being sent between his enemies

Between hackn an agents

They came attapping at the door behind them

And the voice of howtsman all clear sir meladdy tauonto be getting the young master to his father

It

He said the duke later blblind ded mmto the perperof iiacus that he walwalk headlessly into the pit

Would it not be more likely to suggest

He had lived so long in the presence of extreme danger

He misjudged to change in its intensity

Or is it possible

He deliberately sacrificed himself that his son might find a better life

All evidence indicates the duke was a man not easily hoddwind from wa deep family commentaries by the princess iralon m the duke atto aterities leaned against a patapet of a landing control toour outside arrokine the nightt's first moon

An obblate sililver coine hung well above the southern horizon

Beneath the jagared clifs of the shield wall

Shaunlike pparched icing through a dust hayes to his left the lights of arericindlued in the hahas yellow white blue

He thought of the notices posted now about his signature all through the populist places of the planet

How as a blame petitia emperor has charged me to take possession of this planet

And end all dispute the ritualistic formanality of it attached him with a feeling of loneliness who was fooled by that fatuous legalism not the freman certainly nor the houses minor who controlled to the interior trade of iraqas and were haharkkand creatures almost to a man

They have tried to take the life of my son

The rage was difficult to suppress

He saw lights of a moving vehicle coming toward the landing field from arroken

He hoped it was the guard and troopp carrier bringing poor

The delay was goalling

Even though he knew it was prompted by caution on the part of how at salutenant

They have tried to take the life of my son

He showed his head to drive out the angry thoughts glance back at the field

Where five of his own friggets were posted around the room like monolithic centuries better a cautious delay

Than the luutenant was a good one

He reminded himself a man marked for advancement completely loyal our sublime petitia emperor