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190 this incarnation that she might strive harder in the next? Was Jarvis expiating for past immunity? It was all a tangle, surely, to our mortal eyes.

She gave it up, snapped off her light, and went to bed. A shaft of silver, like a prayer rug, lay across the floor.

“Lady Moon, shine softly on my Knight of the Broken Lance,” she whispered, as she closed her eyes.