“After each one wascaptured, Faegan and I examined his blood. An unusually wide, thin mouth lay just below the nose; ratlike ears sat on either side of the heads. She liked him, though the dis-sipated look under his eyes scared her off a little. After that, there’s no telling what mighthappen.
And so the vicious cycle went round and round, making Lothar not only wealthy, but feared. But brilliant as the First Mistress was, they easily saw the flaws in her plan—flaws compoundedby her madness. She repeated the strange process with subsequent irons until each bone had beenbranded twice with its own distinctive markings. But this time it brought a mind-numbing frostiness—a chill so deep that it frozehis lungs and rattled his bones.
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