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If she didn’t already struggle with terrestrial prey, Towhee might have asked Tamar to show her one day. But that was a lost cause and she wouldn’t waste the woman’s time. Anyway, patience wasn’t what Towhee would consider one of her strongest virtues.

Tamar agreed to pass along her salutations, then queried about the goings-on in Mereo. I haven’t been on top of things much lately, Towhee admitted, but I know the Imperator just took a few of the soldiers to visit Akashingo. Something happened there—I think someone important was found dead?

Only after the words left her mouth did she vaguely recall Tamar’s connection to the strange palace on the mesa. Her lips pressed together, eyes searching the young woman’s face for any sign of a reaction to this news.