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TWELVE WITCH FRIEND, Cheels thought told the captain, you and your associates have served your purpose ... and now you will never leave in life the medium which has enclosed you. The synergizer is restored to its place, and its controls reach wherever Moanders did. Our Nuris are again ours, and Manaret is again a ship; a ship of conquest. It has weapons such as your universe has never seen. Their existence was concealed from Moander, and it could not have used them if it had known of them. But the synergizer can use them, and shall! Witch friend, we are not allowing Manaret to be restored to our native dimensional pattern. We are the Great People. Conquest is our destiny and we have adopted Moanders basic plan of conquest against your kind. At the moment our Nuris are hard pressed by your world of Karres and have been forced back among the cold suns. But Manaret is moving out to gather the globes about it again and destroy Karres. Then It wasnt so much a thought as the briefest impulse. A lock took shape and closed in the same beat of time, and the connection to Cheels mind was abruptly sliced off. What Cheel still had to say could be of no importance. What he already had said was abominable, but no great surprise. Thered simply been no way to determine in advance how trustworthy the LyrdHyrier would be after they were relieved of their mutinous robot director. Since that must have been considered on Karres, too, it might be that Cheel would not find Karres as easy to destroy now as he believed... But one couldnt count on that. And in any case, something would have to be done quickly. That there was death of some kind in this paralyzing heaviness which had closed down on him and his witches, the captain didnt doubt. He didnt know what it would be, but he could sense it being prepared. And that made it a very bad moment. Because he was not at all sure that what could be done on a small scale, and experimentally, might also be done on an enormously larger scale und