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The Master Astrologer was willing to give his / life -- if only the torch of what little learning / existed in the land could be passed on.
"The lights upon the Morning Star. " How well he remembered that phrase. Twenty years it must have been since Kwarit had whispered it to him, at the great trial where they had accused Kwarit of heeding the signals of the Evil One.