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my body decided to fight, whatever was keeping me from aging was activated. I’ve physically gotten younger by almost ten years in the last two months. The medical people don’t understand it, and no one knows where it will stop. Hopefully sometime before I revert to my childhood. In the meantime, I’m feeling great.”
    “ No side effects other than the fact you’re getting younger?” asked Jolan.
    “ None, other than the despair from those that were hoping I’d finally be out of the way and they could take over my position. Now they worry I’ll be here another couple of hundred years.”
    “ What happened to Lonid?”
    Vaen frowned and walked back to her desk to sit, indicating Jolan should do the same.
    “ We don’t know where he is. Once I recovered I took over control again. When I learned what stupid things he was doing, I had him removed from the Council. I didn’t think, and probably wouldn’t have had any right to detain him anyway, but within a few days no one saw him any more. He has moved out of Cobalo and no one seems to know where he has gone. He knows a great deal I would hate to see fall into the wrong hands.”
    Jolan understood her concern. Lonid had intimate knowledge of many of their projects.
    “ I’m sorry about Shyar,” Vaen said. “I didn’t learn about her kidnapping until long after you had left and I took over the office again. It wasn’t any secret that the two of you were lovers.”
    “ You’ve received no word of her then?”
    “ Nothing. I’m sorry.”
    “ I expected that Cheurt might have sent some message, trying to use her as a lever against me. I’m not sure if I’m relieved or concerned that hasn’t happened. I don’t know how I’d react if one came.”
    Jolan couldn’t believe she might be dead. He refused to consider the possibility. He would have to wait and see what actions Cheurt took, for there was no doubt he was the person responsible.
    ‘ That was an interesting man you sent our way a few months back,” said Ward.
    For a minute Jolan was confused, then he remembered the man Nerila had sent back to Dibon.
    “ Was he of any use?” asked Jolan. “I wasn’t entirely comfortable letting him go free.”
    “ He gave us the names of a couple of Cheurt’s undercover wizards in the area. We were able to kill four of them. The rest disappeared. They weren’t willing to surrender, so we had no choice. The man died afterwards, you know. He seemed to have no purpose anymore. He just wasted away. What was it, compulsion?”
    Jolan nodded. “Nerila had been studying compulsion trying to understand how it might be used against us. When we had a choice of killing the man or sending him here, she used the spell on him. She claims she’ll never do it again, for any reason. It made her physically sick.”
    “ That girl is full of surprises,” said Vaen. “I never would have thought she’d wander off with you like she did, and now she comes up with something like this. I’d like to have a talk with her. I think we have been wasting her talents.”
    “ Both she and Rifod have been more help than I ever would have thought,” said Jolan. “You have yet to see their latest contribution.”
    Vaen looked at him with a question clearly on her mind, but Dibon changed the direction of the conversation suddenly.
    “ You said you were in southern Angon all this time,” said Dibon. “What could have possibly prompted you to go there? Most of the place is useless desert.”
    Chancellor Vaen and Ward looked surprised at this information. Obviously they hadn’t guessed where he’d gone.
    “ We were exploring Ygooro,” said Jolan curious to see how they would react.
    “ The lost Ygooro? You know where it is?” asked Vaen, her earlier question forgotten.
    “ Even with a map it took us a bit to find it. There’s not too much left, but we have found it useful.”
    Vaen shook her head. “You do come up with surprises, don’t you? How did you find a map for