ony silence and spoke to his

    middle son and made .

    in tious eig to drive Alberico and ibar and tern Palm. A quest t omassos public manner became more and more eccentric and decayed,  a parody—a self-parody, in fact— of the mincing, lisping lover of boys.

    It , in late-nigalks ate outside ty walls.

    Sandres parallel role o settle visibly and loudly into impotent, brooding, triad-cursing exile, marked by querulous, blustering s and too much drinking of his own wine.

    tomasso ually drunk, and ing voice .

    Eigried an assassination. A craceable only to try inn in Ferraut near tibar. For over ibar outed t inn as a place of groinction. No one remembered, aftero plant casual rumors of t among emples. ts of Morian, in particular, ites.

    All tites.

    A full year from time t tion, Alberico of Barbadior ed on riad Games— exactly as Sandre o take  a ed inn in Ferraut near tibar border.

    By time t do t brige-summer day every person in t inn— servants, masters, stable-boys, crons—s broken and t off, before being bound, living, upon ily erected Barbadian sky-wo die.

    to taxes in t  tibar, tregea and Certando. During tortured and burned in tibar uffed in t t not trouble Alberico or ate above the square.

    In tomasso discovered t sorcerers cannot, in fact, be poisoned.

    For t six years t talk at nig knos to t in Barbadior, h each passing year.

    tomasso began commissioning and collecting icks   ed. Gianno, ted a burge