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.But if he was telling something approximating the truth,he did have a point.And I did want to hear more."Eric," he said, "figured that your eyesight might eventually be restored-knowing the way weregenerate-given time.It was a very delicate situation.If Dad were to return, Eric could step down and Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.htmljustify all of his actions to anyone's satisfaction-except for killing you.That would have been too patent amove to ensure his own continued reign beyond the troubles of the moment.And I will tell you franklythat he simply wanted to imprison you and forget you.""Then whose idea was the blinding?"He was silent again for a long while.Then he spoke very softly, almost a whisper: "Hear me out, please.It was mine, and it may have saved your life.Any action taken against you had to be tantamount to death,or their faction would have tried for the real thing.You were no longer of any use to them, but alive andabout you possessed the potentiality of becoming a danger at some future time.They could have usedyour Trump to contact you and kill you, or they could have used it to free you in order to sacrifice you inyet another move against Eric.Blinded, however, there was no need to slay you and you were of no usefor anything else they might have in mind.It saved you by taking you out of the picture for a time, and itsaved us from a more egregious act which might one day be held against us.As we saw it, there was nochoice.It was the only thing we could do.There could be no show of leniency either, or we might besuspected of having some use for you ourselves.The moment you assumed any such semblance of valueyou would have been a dead man.The most we could do was look the other way whenever Lord Reincontrived to comfort you.That was all that could be done.""I see," I said."Yes," he agreed, "you saw too soon.No one had guessed you would recover your sight that quickly,nor that you would be able to escape once you did.How did you manage it?""Does Macy's tell Gimbel's?" I said."Beg pardon?""I said-never mind.What do you know of Brand's imprisonment, then?"He regarded me once more."All I know is that there was some sort of falling out within his group.I lack the particulars.For somereason, Bleys and Fiona were afraid to kill him and afraid to let him run loose.When we freed him fromtheir compromise-imprisonment-Fiona was apparently more afraid of having him free.""And you said you feared him enough to have made ready to kill him.Why now, after all this time, whenall of this is history and the power has shifted again? He was weak, virtually helpless.What harm couldhe do now?"He sighed."I do not understand the power that he possesses," he said, "but it is considerable.I know that he cantravel through Shadow with his mind, that he can sit in a chair, locate what he seeks in Shadow, and thenbring it to him by an act of will without moving from the chair; and he can travel through Shadowphysically in a somewhat similar fashion.He lays his mind upon the place he would visit, forms a kind ofmental doorway, and simply steps through.For that matter, I believe he can sometimes tell what peopleare thinking.It is almost as if he has himself become some sort of living Trump.I know these thingsbecause I have seen him do them.Near the end, when we had him under surveillance in the palace hehad eluded us once in this fashion.This was the time he traveled to the shadow Earth and had you placedin Bedlam.After his recapture, one of us remained with him at all times.We did not yet know that he Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.htmlcould summon things through Shadow, however.When he became aware that you had escaped yourconfinement, he summoned a horrid beast which attacked Caine, who was then his bodyguard.Then hewent to you once again.Bleys and Fiona apparently got hold of him shortly after that, before we could,and I did not see him again until that night in the library when we brought him back.I fear him because hehas deadly powers which I do not understand.""In such a case, I wonder how they managed to confine him at all?""Fiona has similar strengths, and I believe Bleys did also.Between the two of them, they couldapparently annul most of Brand's power while they created a place where it would be inoperative.""Not totally," I said."He got a message to Random.In fact, he reached me once, weakly.""Obviously not totally, then," he said."Sufficiently, however.Until we broke through the defenses.""What do you know of all their byplay with me-confining me, trying to kill me, saving me.""That I do not understand," he said, "except that it was part of the power struggle within their owngroup.They had had a falling out amongst themselves, and one side or the other had some use for you.So, naturally, one side was trying to kill you while the other fought to preserve you.Ultimately, of course,Bleys got the most mileage out of you, in that attack he launched.""But he was the one who tried to kill me, back on the shadow Earth," I said."He was the one who shotout my tires.""Oh?""Well, that is what Brand told me, but it jibes with all sorts of secondary evidence."He shrugged."I cannot help you on that," he said."I simply do not know what was going on among them at that time.""Yet you countenance Fiona in Amber," I said."In fact, you are more than a little cordial to herwhenever she is about.""Of course," he said, smiling."I have always been very fond of Fiona [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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.But if he was telling something approximating the truth,he did have a point.And I did want to hear more."Eric," he said, "figured that your eyesight might eventually be restored-knowing the way weregenerate-given time.It was a very delicate situation.If Dad were to return, Eric could step down and Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.htmljustify all of his actions to anyone's satisfaction-except for killing you.That would have been too patent amove to ensure his own continued reign beyond the troubles of the moment.And I will tell you franklythat he simply wanted to imprison you and forget you.""Then whose idea was the blinding?"He was silent again for a long while.Then he spoke very softly, almost a whisper: "Hear me out, please.It was mine, and it may have saved your life.Any action taken against you had to be tantamount to death,or their faction would have tried for the real thing.You were no longer of any use to them, but alive andabout you possessed the potentiality of becoming a danger at some future time.They could have usedyour Trump to contact you and kill you, or they could have used it to free you in order to sacrifice you inyet another move against Eric.Blinded, however, there was no need to slay you and you were of no usefor anything else they might have in mind.It saved you by taking you out of the picture for a time, and itsaved us from a more egregious act which might one day be held against us.As we saw it, there was nochoice.It was the only thing we could do.There could be no show of leniency either, or we might besuspected of having some use for you ourselves.The moment you assumed any such semblance of valueyou would have been a dead man.The most we could do was look the other way whenever Lord Reincontrived to comfort you.That was all that could be done.""I see," I said."Yes," he agreed, "you saw too soon.No one had guessed you would recover your sight that quickly,nor that you would be able to escape once you did.How did you manage it?""Does Macy's tell Gimbel's?" I said."Beg pardon?""I said-never mind.What do you know of Brand's imprisonment, then?"He regarded me once more."All I know is that there was some sort of falling out within his group.I lack the particulars.For somereason, Bleys and Fiona were afraid to kill him and afraid to let him run loose.When we freed him fromtheir compromise-imprisonment-Fiona was apparently more afraid of having him free.""And you said you feared him enough to have made ready to kill him.Why now, after all this time, whenall of this is history and the power has shifted again? He was weak, virtually helpless.What harm couldhe do now?"He sighed."I do not understand the power that he possesses," he said, "but it is considerable.I know that he cantravel through Shadow with his mind, that he can sit in a chair, locate what he seeks in Shadow, and thenbring it to him by an act of will without moving from the chair; and he can travel through Shadowphysically in a somewhat similar fashion.He lays his mind upon the place he would visit, forms a kind ofmental doorway, and simply steps through.For that matter, I believe he can sometimes tell what peopleare thinking.It is almost as if he has himself become some sort of living Trump.I know these thingsbecause I have seen him do them.Near the end, when we had him under surveillance in the palace hehad eluded us once in this fashion.This was the time he traveled to the shadow Earth and had you placedin Bedlam.After his recapture, one of us remained with him at all times.We did not yet know that he Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.htmlcould summon things through Shadow, however.When he became aware that you had escaped yourconfinement, he summoned a horrid beast which attacked Caine, who was then his bodyguard.Then hewent to you once again.Bleys and Fiona apparently got hold of him shortly after that, before we could,and I did not see him again until that night in the library when we brought him back.I fear him because hehas deadly powers which I do not understand.""In such a case, I wonder how they managed to confine him at all?""Fiona has similar strengths, and I believe Bleys did also.Between the two of them, they couldapparently annul most of Brand's power while they created a place where it would be inoperative.""Not totally," I said."He got a message to Random.In fact, he reached me once, weakly.""Obviously not totally, then," he said."Sufficiently, however.Until we broke through the defenses.""What do you know of all their byplay with me-confining me, trying to kill me, saving me.""That I do not understand," he said, "except that it was part of the power struggle within their owngroup.They had had a falling out amongst themselves, and one side or the other had some use for you.So, naturally, one side was trying to kill you while the other fought to preserve you.Ultimately, of course,Bleys got the most mileage out of you, in that attack he launched.""But he was the one who tried to kill me, back on the shadow Earth," I said."He was the one who shotout my tires.""Oh?""Well, that is what Brand told me, but it jibes with all sorts of secondary evidence."He shrugged."I cannot help you on that," he said."I simply do not know what was going on among them at that time.""Yet you countenance Fiona in Amber," I said."In fact, you are more than a little cordial to herwhenever she is about.""Of course," he said, smiling."I have always been very fond of Fiona [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]