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two out of her eyes and tucked it behind her ear for her. "Have you any time
to spare?" he asked wistfully.
No  there's this, and the forges, and the slave-collars, andthe
defenses and
"I'll make some," she replied.
The irony of the situation was that the only people affected by this
sea-change in their relationship were Lorryn and Shana themselves. But oh, the
difference for them!
No one seemed to have noticed that Lorryn's quarters had been
stripped and converted into a storage area. Spiteful com-ments from Caellach
Gwain as reported by Shana's sharp-earedobservers among the children were in
no wise changed. Andyet the difference to her!
But the world outside their chamber was not going to go away.
A plan a large and complicated plan to safeguard theCitadel
forever was beginning to take shape between the two of them. When news came
from Keman that Lord Kyrtian had either given or been ordered to give the
command of the army to someone else while the Council debated its future, the
needfor that plan took on a new sense of urgency.
The old Citadel had defenses that this one didn't; it was time to put
them in place. Alara and Kalamadea were the chief ar-chitects of the Citadel,
and it was time to consult with them.
She and Lorryn, Alara and Father Dragon sat together over a
three-dimensional "map" of the Citadel, sculpted in removable layers, trying
to plan what next needed to be molded out of the rocks of their mountain. One
grim consideration escape tun-nels. Just in case the Great Lords decided to
send the formida-ble Lord Kyrtian after them. Another, a duplicate of the
Citadel far enough away to flee to, but near enough that an evacuationcould
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take place by means of the transportation spell. Therewere enough Wizards able
to use it now that the entire popula-tion could be evacuated within hours, and
the advantage of thespell was that there would be no tracks to trace them by.
The existence of this duplicate which was near enough to Zed's
iron-mines to provide extra protection, but at this pointhardly more than a
few chambers molded out of the rock bysome of the youngest dragons was for now
a closely-kept se-cret. Even from the dragons working on it. Alara had told
them it was nothing more than a new set of lairs.
Which we also need,Shana thought, wondering just how
thin their resources could be stretched before things
startedsnapping.
"The prisoners how goes the memory-making?" FatherDragon asked. He
and Alara were in halfblood form at the mo-ment, or they would never have fit
into the map-chamber. "I donot wish to alarm you unduly, but the sooner we can
drop thosetwo where they can be found, the better."
"Narshy's sorted out who's the best at planting the newmemories, and
he's got them stuffed with about a year's worth,"Shana replied, tracing a
possible exit tunnel from the lowest storage chamber onto the model with a wax
pencil. "We de-cided to make the memories confused and foggy, as if they'dbeen
kept drugged."
"We nominated Caellach as the Chief Wizard of this imagi- nary lot,"
Lorryn put in, getting a grin from Father Dragon anda head shake from Alara.
"We had to havesomebody, and at least he's memorable."
"Narshy says we should be able to plant them in a few days. He took
the real memories of being captured, put new faces on the people doing the
capture, then took it from there." Shanabrooded over the model. "He's using as
much of their realmemories as he can, just changing the faces to Wizards,
thetents to rock walls and eliminating the iron collars. He's mak- ing those
into something like slave-collars, so that the Elven-lords will think that
this new lot of concocted Wizards areactually better at using elven magic than
the Elvenlords them-selves are."
"A good touch," Father Dragon Said, admiringly.
"Now if only I could figure out a way to be in two places at the
same time," Shana said, staring down at the map.
Keman and Dora had not been able to get any nearer to LordKyrtian
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