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THE HOME OF THE KINDRED Rhiyana: where
the Fair Folk live in peace with mortals. Where
the White Chancellor, Alt of St. Ruan'seaand
his beautiful witch-mate, Thea Damaskena, have
ended their long exile, to raise their twin babies.
Suddenly a mad sorcerer, striking from across a
continent, murders the Elvenking'sson and kidnaps
Thea and her infants, trapping them in the bodies of
beasts-while a fanatic army besieges
Rhiyana, slaughtering the Fair Ones. Alfred,
the Elven priest, must find his mate, battle a
renegade enchanter's dark powers-and face the final
horror of the Hounds of God. Because the wondrous
Fair Folk have been marked for death by an
adversary more vast and awesome than all the world's
magic... The Church. "Tarr provides loving
detail to each characterization, subplot, image and
interaction-her craft is exceptional."
comFantasy Review
caret A Tom Doherty Associates, Inc.
Book
"37145"00350" "Only regard yourself," said
Cardinal Torrino. "You have youth, beauty, great
magic. Anything mere men can do, you can do better.
And you never age or die." He sighed. "By your very
existence you make the world waver. There is no place
for you in our philosophy." "Envy is a deadly
sin," Alf said. "Deadly," the Legate said,
"yes." "No harm befalls Christian souls in
Rhiyana, that their King is the Elvenking." Alf
gripped Tomno's shoulder. "We are not of
mortal kind; we are true and potent witches; but
we do not traffic with Hell." Torrino looked at
him with great and growing sadness. "By your own words are you
betrayed." "Will you call your Hounds upon us, then?"
Alf's smile was gentle, and as terrible as the fire
in his eyes. "Our King will not atone for what is to us
no sin." "Not even for his kingdom's sake?"
"That," said Alf, "is why we will fight."
THE HOUND-LSLTHE FALCON TRILOGY
Look for these Tor books by Judith Tarr
The Hound and the Falcon THE ISLE OF
GLASS THE GOLDEN HORN THE HOUNDS
OF GOD
A vary an Rising THE HALL OF THE
MOUNTAIN KING (hardcover) THE LADY OF
HAN-GILEN (forthcoming hardcover) A FALL
OF PRINCES (forthcoming hardcover) THE
HOUNDNTHE FALCON TRILOGY
JUDITH TADG
TDR ATOM DOHERTYASSO-FLATPS
ROOK This is a work disof fiction. All the characters and
events portrayed in this book are fictional, and
any resemblance to real people or incidents is
purely coincidental. THE HOUNDS OF GOD
Copyright c 1986 by Judith Tan- All rights
reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or
portions thereof in any form. Reprinted by arrangement
with Bluejay Books First Tor printing: May
1987 A TOR Book
Published by Tom Doherty Associates,
Inc. 49 West 24 Street New York,
N.y. 10010
Cover art by Kevin Eugene Johnson
ISBN: 0812556054 C. ED.:
Printed in the United States of America
For Wilie and Bonnie For Brett
And for Jonika
He knew distinction in three abstractions of
sound, the women's cry under the thong of Lupercal, the
Pope's voice singing the Glory on Lateran, the
howl of a wolf in the coast of Broceliande.
comCharles Williams, Taliessin Througfi
Logres The fire had gone out some rime since.
For all its warmth of carpets and hangings and its
che/l of books, the room was cold; icy. Its
occupant seemed not to notice. He sat in his
plain dark robe that could have been anything, lord's
cotte, scholar's gown, monk's habit, intent
upon a closely written page. His only light was
a stub of candle, the day having died somewhat before the
fire, darkening one of the greater treasures of the
Royal Chancery: the tall glass window that looked
upon the sea. A second treasure lay on the
desk near his hand, the heavy chain and the jeweled seal
of the King's Chancellor, silver and sapphire,
ashimmer in the unsteady light. He shifted
slightly on his tall scribe's stool. The
candle, flaring, turned his hair to silver fire.
He heeded the changing light no more than he had the
cold. Or the one who watched him, silent in the
doorway, almost smiling. As he stirred, she
stirred likewise. Her feet were soundless on the
eastern carpet, her movements fluid, 2 Judith
Tarr graceful. Her eyes glinted golden
bronze. In a moment, perhaps, she would burst
into laughter. Directly behind the Chancellor, she
paused. He did not move. She slid her arms
about him and set her chin upon his shoulder. He neither
started nor recoiled. "Look at this," he said, as
if she had been there reading with him for the past hour and
more. "Every year for the past fifty, the Lord of St.
Dol has taken a half-tariff from every boatload
of fish brought into his demesne; taken it and sold
it and turned a handsome profit. But here you see-the
fishermen are wise. They take care to pause in
certain havens and folds in the coast, and to dispose of
goodly portions of their catches before submitting (he
rest to the lord's inspection, thus turning handsome
profits on their own. So extortion requites
extortion, and everyone knows and no one says a word,
and each party grows gratifyingly rich."
"Very gratifyingly," she said, amused. It was not
easy, shaped as she was now, to stand for long as she
stood; she moved to his side. His arm settled itself
round her swollen middle. She leaned comfortably
against him. "And what will my lord Chancellor do to right this
twofold wrong?"
Her mockery made him smile. "Wrong, Thea?
The wrong is only this, that the King has no share in
it. I'll give the lord His Majesty's justice:
a half-tariff on his half-tariff. To increase
accordingly if he tries to extort more from his people in order
to keep up his profits." She laughed. "That's
royal justice! And the fishermen?" "What of the
fishermen? They pay their lord duly and properly.
Their share is included in his."
She shook her head. "You'll spoil them,
Alf. They'll begin to think they can wriggle out of their
taxes else where."
"They won't," he said, "unless it pleases them
to have their less . . . public transactions
recorded and taxed as well."
the hounds OF god 3
Her eyes went wide, mock-astounded. "Why,
Alfred, my saintly love, you're devious!"
"It comes with the office." His free hand
brushed the chain; paused; gathered it up. It was
heavy. World-heavy. She knew; she had set it on
his shoulders often enough.
He let it fall again with a cold clashing of
silver. "I didn't want it," he said. "I
didn't want anything except quiet and a book
or two, and you. But Gwydion will never be denied."
"Maddening, isn't it? There's one man in the world
who's more obstinate than you are. And being King, he can
do proper battle against you."
"I'm not sure if I'd call it proper. He
knighted me-that was bearable; I earned my spurs
well enough, if not entirely gladly. But the
spurs had titles attached. Lands;
lordship. I had it all before I even knew it."
"Baron of the High Council of the Kingdom
ofRhiyana," she said, savoring it. "Warden of the
Wood of Broceliande. Kinsman of the King." "And
what of your own titles, my lady of Careol?"
"They're lovely. But not as lovely as your face
the day Gwydion gave you yonder chain." Her
eyes danced upon it. "What a splendid
spectacle that was! Here was old Bishop
Ogyourselfan, raised up to join Saint Peter's
Chancery, alleluia-where no doubt his
talents would be in great demand. But who would take his
place here below? Some elderly prelate, surely,
as dry as his own ledgers, with an abacus for a brain.
There were one or two very likely candidates. And
Gwydion stood up in court and handed the chain to his
dear kinsman beside him, and said, 'Labor well for
me, my lord Chancellor.""
"And his kinsman," said Alfred, "stood gawping
like a villein at a fair."
"Actually," she said, "he looked like a monk
whose abbot has ordered him to embrace a woman.
Shocked;
indignant; and-buried deep beneath the rest-
deliehted." 4 Judith Tarr
"That last, I certainly was not. I was appalled.
Everyone knows what I am: a very reluctant
nobleman, and in spite of all your teaching, still one of the
world's innocents. Do you remember how shocked I was
in Constanrinopolis to learn that men are paid to be
healers?" "I remember. I also remember how you
took what Gwydion gave you. Admit it now; you
weren't taken completely by surprise. You'd wander
into the Chancery, maybe to look up a record,
maybe to argue law and Scripture with old
Ogyourselfan, and there'd be some small tangle
somewhere. You'd look, lift that famous eyebrow of
yours, andwitha word or two you'd have it all
unraveled."
"It was never that simple."
"Wasn't it?" Thea asked. His hand, forsaking the
chain, had come to rest upon the generous swell of her
belly. Her own settled over it. "You have a
talent' for ordering kingdoms. As for so much else."
Beneath their hands life woke, rolling and kicking, a
prominence that might have been a heel, a tight coil
of body. The sudden light in Alts face made
Thea's breath catch. Her laughter showed it, light,
not entirely steady. "He wears armor, that son of
yours. And spurs." Alf's arms linked behind her;
he smiled his swift brilliant smile. "You
don't mind."
"Not much, I don't. Once he's born,
I'll give as good as I get." He laughed
softly and laid his cheek where his hand had been. She
looked down upon the top of his head with its thick,
fine, white-fair hair; the pale lashes upon the
pale cheeks, and the lingering curve of his smile. If
she looked very closely in the candle's flicker, she
could discern the thickening of down that might, in time,
become a beard.
She shook her head wryly. She had never met
a man less vain, or with more reason to be; but
sometimes she caught him dis"her mirror, frowning at
his reflection. It was always the same.
Piercing-fair, luminous-pale, and very young. But the
eyes as he stared into the polished silver, those were not a
boy's at all. the hounds OF god 5
Nor was his voice, that had the purity of a tenor
bell. "Marry me, Thea," he said.
That ritual was years old. She completed it as
she always had. "What! and ruin my reputation?"
"I'm thinking of our children." Which was the new
litany, nearly ten months old.
"So am I," she said. "They'll be beautiful
little bas tards." He stiffened a little at the word,
relaxing with an effort. "They should not have to be-was
"It's somewhat too late for that. And what priest
would marry us? I'm a Greek, a schismatic.
1 won't convert to Rome even for you, my love."
"Jehan wouldn't care. He should be here tomorrow- even
today. He'd be more than glad to make us respect
able."
"Jehan would go to Hell for you if you asked him.
But you won't, nor will you ask him this. I won't
agree to it."
He raised his head. He was neither hurt nor
angry, only puzzled. "Why?"
"I love to be a scandal."
"In this place," he said, "that's not easy."
"Of course not. There's Prince Aidan-he
wanted a full court wedding. And his bride a
wild Saracen, an honest-to- Heaven Assassin.
It took ten years and five Popes and all his
mighty powers of persuasion, but he had his way. Then
the Archbishop wouldn't say the words, and began a new
battle royal. I have to work to keep up with that."
He sighed; rose and stretched. He was tall; he
could seem frail, with his long limbs and his
moonflower skin. Now and then a stranger would think
him fair prey, a lovely boy as meek as a
girl; would prick him and find the hunting leopard.
It was not for his scholarship, or even for his feats in
Chancery, that the King had dubbed him knight. "I
wish you would see reason," he said.
She smilffi her mn'ir wipkpri smile "T
cm[*macr] ir nnw Vnii 6 Judith Tarr
want to keep me to yourself. Fie for shame, sir!
I'm a free woman; I can do as I please."
His gaze rested upon her, clear as sunlit water
and utterly undismayed. "There are two
edges to that sword, my lady. Fidelity I
gladly meet with fidelity. But if you, being free,
decide to stray ..."
"You wouldn't."
He smiled sweetly. "Gwydion's court is
the fairest in the world. No lady in it surpasses
you, but one or two could be your equal." Her teeth
bared; her eyes went narrow and vicious, cat-
wild. "I'll claw her eyes out!"
Even in his amusement, he reached for her,
afraid, for she shifted and blurred. For an instant
the woman's form wavered behind that of a golden lioness
tensed to spring. But the vision faded. Thea stood in
her own form, glowing in amber silk, crackling with
temper. His hand retreated. He remembered to breathe
again. Her glare seared him. "And well you might
tremble for provoking me so! Or do you want your
son to be born a lion cub?" He met her
fierce witch-eyes. His own were milder but no more
human; he smiled. "I want that for my. son no
more than you want it for your daughter."
"She might profit from it."
"Then so might he." Alt took her hands and
kissed them. "My sweet lady, you have no rival
and you know it. And it's only a little longer that
you need suffer confine ment to this single shape. When our
children are born, when you're strong again, we'll run
away for a while. An hour; a day. We'll run
wolf-gray through Broceliande; we'll fly on
falcon-wings. We'll be like young lovers again."
Her temper was cooling, but it smoldered still. "H
caret , Alf? Are you going to forget your fears at
last and venture the change?" Slowly he nodded.
"I'm ready," he said. "At long last. I
think, with you to share it, I could let go."
the hounds OF god 7
"I'll hold you to that, Alfred."
His smile neither wavered nor weakened, although his
fingers were cold. "I mean you to."
"Good, because you've left yourself no choice at
all." She tilted her head slightly, looking up
at him, making no secret of the pleasure she took
in it. His hands were warming again to their wonted
fire-heat, that made him impervious to winter's
cold. He had willed his tension away, the old
fear, the deep dread that struck in the midst of the
change, when no part of his body was solid or stable
and all his being threatened to scatter into the wind. But for
all of that fear, he was a very great enchanter, equal
to any of their people; save only, perhaps, the
King.
"And you," he said softly, caught in her mind as
she was caught in his.
"In some of the arts," she admitted, "maybe.
In others you pass us all." Her laughter had come
back all at once to ripple over him. "Then,
sir prophet, how is it that you cannot see? Jehan
is here. Has been here this past hour and more."
"You never--" He broke off. He knew her.
Too well. "Witch! And you've let us dally
here."
"He's had plenty to do. Gwydion gave him
formal greeting first and a proper welcome after; all
the Folk took it up. The last I saw, he had
Anna on his knee and Nikki leaning on his
shoulder, and he was telling tales to the whole court."
He took it from her mind, whole and wonderful; with
mirth at the vision of Anna Chrysolora, woman
grown and much upon her dignity, enthroned in the lap
other beloved Father Jehan.
Bishop Jehan it was now, though that was not immediately
obvious. He wore as always the coarse brown
habit of a monk of Saint Jerome; he seemed
larger than ever, a great Norman tower of a man,
with a strong-boned, broken- nosed.
unabashedly homelv face8 Judith Tarr As it
turned to Alf, it was suddenly, miraculously
beautiful. "Alf!" Jehan laughed for sheer
pleasure as he held his friend at arm's length,
taking him in. "Alfred, you rogue, why didn't
you tell me about Thea?"
They had all drawn back, the court, the King,
even Thea, watching, smiling. Alf was hardly aware
of them. "I knew you were coming for Christmas Court,"
he answered, "and that was more than time enough. You'll do
the christening, of course."
"You'd be hard pressed to keep me from it."
Jehan's grin kept escaping, stripping years from
his face, bringing back the bright-eyed boy who had
learned philosophy from a white elf-monk. But
there was a ring on his finger, gold set with a great
amethyst. Alf bent and kissed it.
"My homage to the Bishop of Sarum," he said.
Jehan bowed in return. "And mine to the Chancellor
of Rhiyana. We've been busy lately, you and
I, rising in the world."
"Every man receives his just deserts," said Alf. The
young Bishop looked at him-something in any case that
he could never get enough of-and smiled. Alf looked
splendid. Quiet; content. As if he were
home and at ease, and completely at peace with himself
and his world. No troubles, no torments. No yearning
for the cloister he had forsaken.
"I can hardly go back to it now," he said, reading
Jehan's thoughts with the ease of long friendship.
Jehan laughed and glanced at Thea. "Hardly
indeed! She'd never allow it."
"Nor would I. We're having twins, you know.
A son for me, she says. A daughter for herself.
It will only be the second birth among the Kindred
in Rhiyana, the second time two of us together have
made a child." Alf smiled. "Prince Alun is
more excited than I am. At last, while he's still
young enough to enjoy it, he'll have cousins like himself."
"He's what-eleven?"
the hounds OF god 9
"Twelve this past All Hallows. We all
spoil him shame fully, but somehow he manages
to come out unscathed. That bodes well," Alf added,
"for the two who are coming."
"Love never spoiled anyone," Jehan said with
pontifical surety. He returned to the seat he
had left, a bench set against the tapestried wall.
The court eddied beyond, returned to its own concerns, the
King on his throne with his Queen beside him, the
high ones movingin the ancient pattern of courts,
fixed and formal as a dance. Music had begun
to play softly beneath the murmur of voices. Alt
settled beside Jehan. His eyes, changeful as
water, had warmed to pale gold; he rested his arm
upon the wide shoulders. They had sat just so at their
last meeting-was it five years ago already? And
again, three before that; and three more. The same bench that
first time, the same rich hanging portraying David
with his harp and Jonathan at his feet, tall
white-skinned black-headed youths, each with the same
eagle-proud face. Not that Jehan had noticed
them that time, or troubled to find the models in the King
and his princely brother-his nose had been
new-broken then in celebration of his emergence from two
years' cloistered retreat, and though almost healed, it
ached unbearably when the wind blew cold. Until
Alf touched him with that wondrous healer's touch and
took the pain away, and would have worked full healing if
Jehan had allowed it. "Let be," he had said,
proud young priest- knight on the Pope's errand.
"It's not as if I had any beauty to lose; and I
earned the stroke. Entering a tournament with two
months' practice behind me and two years' softening
in a library, and letting myself be matched with the
best man on the field. It's a wonder he left
my head on my shoulders." Alf had smiled and
let be. But Jehan knew he knew. Helmless,
reeling, half strangling in his own blood, with God
and fate and the champion's arrogance to aid him,
Jehan had struck his adversary to the ground. The
tale had run ahead of him, embroidered already into a
legend. 10 Judith Tarr
Ladies sighed over him, whose face was all one
hideous bruise from chin to forehead, as if he had
been as beautiful as the man beside him.
The bruise was long gone, the face neither harmed
nor helped by its broken arch. Soldier's weathering
was proving stronger than the scholar's pallor, the
lines setting firm, the hair beginning to retreat
toward the tonsure. But he still had all his teeth, and
good strong white ones they were; his strength had never
been greater. He drew a lungful of clean
Rhiyanan air overlaid with woodsmoke and fresh
rushes and a hint-a hint only-of humanity. The
last of which, he knew certainly, did not come from his
companion. Alfon shipboard, unbathed for a month
save in sea water and toiling at the oars like any
sailor, had no more scent than a child or a clean
animal. His eyes looked pastjehan,
resting like a caress upon his lady, who held court
near the fire. Lamplight and firelight leached
all the humanity from his stare, turning the great
irises to silvery gold, narrowing the pupils
to slits. So even in the chrysalid child could one mark
his kind, the people called by many names: changelings,
elf-brood, Fair Folk;
children of the Devil, of the old dead gods, ofthejann;
but in Rhiyana, the Kindred of the King. Though that was
not a kinship the law or the Church would recognize,
of blood and of family, save for the two who were
brothers, twinborn, king and royal prince:
David and Jonathan of the tapestry, Gwydion the
King and Aidan his brother. The rest had come as
Alf had from far countries, brought to this kingdom by the
presence of its King.
There were perhaps a score of them. They ran tall,
although there were knights of the court who overtopped the
tallest; they were paler of skin than most, although some
were ivory. Man and woman, or rather youth and maid,
for the eldest looked hardly to have passed his twentieth
year, each with the same cast of feature, narrow,
high-cheeked, great-eyed. And the same beauty-a
beauty to launch fleets of ships, to whistle
kingdoms down the the hounds OF god
wind, fierce and keen and splendid as the light upon
a sword. And as changeable, and as changeless. Just so
had Alf been, monk and master scholar of an abbey
in the west of Anglia, ordained priest long years
before Coeur-de-Lion was born. Just so had he
been in the debacle that was the Crusade against
Byzantium, when the Great City fell and a
Prankish emperor ruled over the ruins. Just so was
he now with king and emperor long in their graves, and so
would he always be. Blade or bolt might end his
life. Age and sickness could not. It should have been
unbearable, Jehan supposed. He found it comforting.
A deep, warm, pagan comfort that his priest's
conscience chose not to acknowledge nor to con demn.
Like the old Pope with his grimoires, who sang
Mass with true devotion and called up his demons
after, the scholar's mind knew its divisions. In
one. God and the Church and all the Canons. In the
other, Alfred and his kin and his high white magic, and
his perfect constancy. Whatever became of the world, he
remained. Would always remain, a bright strong presence
on the edge of Jehan's awareness.
His physical presence was a rare and precious
thing, to be savored slowly, in silence. But this time the
pleasure could not last. Memory flooded,
cold and deadly. Jehan's muscles knotted.
Alf's grip tightened, though gentle still, a mere
shadow of his strength. He did not speak. A warmth
crept from his arm and hand, soothing, loosening, healing.
Jehan set his teeth against it. "You're
perilous, you know," he said, trying to be light, "like
lotus flowers, or poppy. Won't you let me
suffer a bit? It's good for my soul."
"Is it?" Alf asked. "Not that I would know, who
have none." His glance was bright, full of mockery, but
like Jehan's own it had a bitter core. Jehan
flashed out against it. "You know that's not true! You of
all people in the world, who wrote the book for all our
theologians to build on."
12 Judith Tarr
"They build on Aristotle now," Alf said,
"and on the Lombard's Sentences. Not on my
Gloria Dei. Which may be almost as great as its
flatterers make it, but it remains in its essence a
testimony to one man's pride. If man you may
call him-and when he wrote it, a beardless
brilliant boy of thirty-three, he knew that he
was not." "You were scrupulous. You defined the soul according
to Plato, Aristotle, Boethius, Martianus.
You quoted Scripture and the Fathers and every
recorded authority all the way to the Lombard
himself. You corrected the philosophers' errors; you
reconciled the canonists' contradictions. But
nowhere," said Jehan, "did you exclude the
possibility that you yourself, in your immortal body,
might not possess an immortal soul."
"I still had hopes then of my own mortality.
Hopes only, but they were tenacious. They dissolved
long before my vows." Alt smiled with no appearance
of strain. "It rather amuses me now. Arrogant
innocent that I was, embodying all theology in a
single book and sending my first copy direct to the
Pope. As if all the vexed and vexing questions,
answered, could encompass the reality of God-or
even of a woman's smile."
"God and woman are disgreat mysteries. But there's
some comfort in answered questions, and more in your book, however
you shrug it away." "Not for me. And not for the busy
scribblers in the schools or in the Papal
Curia. They have no love for simple solutions,
nor for my lamentable touch of mysticism. They'll
lock all the world into their Categories; any who
fails to fit them must be anathema." Jehan shuddered
deep and painfully. "You're prophesy ing. Do you
disknow that?"
"For once," Alf answered, "yes. Tell me
what you have to tell." "What need of that? You know
already."
"Tell me."
But Jehan, whose ready tongue was famous, could not
bring himself to begin. "The King-does he-was
the hounds OF god 13
"He hears."
He was on his throne in a circle of nobles,
deep in converse with a portly prelate, the
Archbishop of Caer Gwent. He was the Elvenking.
He could hear what no mere man could. Jehan
drew a slow breath. Foolish, he upbraided
himself. It's nothing so terrible. Tell it and have done!
His voice went at it cornerwise. "It's been
a bitter year, this past one. John Lackland of
Anglia dead and buried, and a child crowned in
Winchester; though it's a strong regency we'll have,
and I'll see my own country again. Pray God
I can stay in it for more than a month at a time. I
haven't done that since Coeur-de-Lion died,
close on twenty years now. But I'm going back
in fine fettle, with a bishopric to hammer into shape
and a good number of friends at court and in the Church.
I'll do well enough. I could only wish
..."
"You wish," Alf said for him when he could not, "that
Pope Innocent had not died hard upon the Anglian
King, as if their long struggle for control of the See
of Canterbury, once ended, left nothing for either
to live for. And you wish that Innocent's death hadn't
slipped the muzzles from his Hounds."
"The Hounds of God." It was a sour taste on
Jehan's tongue. "The Order of Saint Paul
of the Damascus Road. Hunters of the Church's
enemies. Richard threw them out of Anglia for your
sake; John at least had the sense to keep them out,
and the Regents will see that they stay there. They're not
faring so splendidly well elsewhere, either. When the
Cathari in Languedoc murdered the Pope's
legate. Innocent preached a Crusade against all
heretics, and the Paulines swarmed in like Hies to a
carcass. But someone else had got there first: that
Spanish madman, Domingo, and his Preachers. That
was Innocent's doing, who'd never had much use for his
Hounds; he found them intractable. "Now Innocent
is dead and Honorius is Pope, and 14
Judith Tarr
Domingo's irregulars have been signed, sealed,
and char tered: the Ordo Praedicatorum,
with a particular mission to preach the Gospel to the lost
sheep of Rome. But Honorius is no fool.
He knows he doesn't have Innocent's power, or the
sheer gall, to kennel God's Hounds; and they're
yapping in his ear day and night. Languedoc?
What's Languedoc? A few villages full of
Cathars, and a priest or two with a harem. There's a
better target in the north. Small but fabulously
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