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Kaertok listened carefully as she spoke, though he kept his legs moving forward. Those who had left had every reason to, as far as he could tell. Caiaphas was the only one he did not know, and Svalinn he had only met in passing. He did not understand why Vengeance had left, considering he had been the one to tell Raleska to come back and straighten things up. When she had more or less put Verx on the spot, the idiot had been bested and chased out. Wasn't that what he had wanted?

It is not uncommon, he replied, I have done so myself in the past. Alas, Raleska kept him here. The Tartok wondered if she knew that, but he didn't give the question a voice.