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It isn't hopeless, you know. And you saw the future—a future—inthere. Here is the secret, Pyphoros said. Then we have another enemy to deal with.

He had had enough face-to-face experience with the newregent to know that Kurgan was both volatile and unforgiving. Briefly, theirhands touched, they looked into each other's eyes. This was a Gyrgon experiment and,unfortunately, not all of their experiments are successful. A sickly-sweet odor was everywhere absorbed into the furniture, the carpets, even, he was convinced,the marble-clad walls which, when he came near, seemed to exude the must of death.