Three Lives, Two Mates, One Enemy
"It'll ask for everything you have. And you, more than anybody alive, will want to give it past that, because you've spent three lives sure that's what you're for. Do that here... pour past the bottom to make certain it's done... and you won't come back up. There'll be nothing left to close the circle around."
The ring was very quiet.
"So the trick," I said, "is to open all the way, give everything, and stop one step short of the thing every part of me is going to be screaming to do."
"Yes."
"With Corvus coming through that ring with an army."
"Yes."
"And if I get it wrong either way... hold too much back and the circle doesn't shut and his claim stays. Pour too much and the circle shuts and
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