Christopher Golden - Outcast 02 - Dragon Secrets

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DRAGON SECRETS
Outcast Book 02
Christopher Golden &
Thomas Sniegoski
Prologue
Perched on the edge of one of many turrets adorning the floating fortress of SkyHaven, Verlis
unfurled his leathery wings and basked in the rays of the early morning sun. The warm sunshine was
pleasant, but it caused the dragonlike creature a pang of guilt. He had no right to feel even the slightest
joy until he had accomplished the task that had brought him to this world in the first place. There was a
civil war going on among the Wurm in their world of Draconae, and his kin were losing badly. He could
not rest until his tribe was safe from harm.
Verlis sighed and smoke vented from the nostrils on either side of his blunted snout. A roiling flame
burned within every member of his race, a species descended from the great Dragons of Old, and there
was nearly always smoke or fire rising from their snouts.
Verlis had come to Terra, a world forbidden to his kind, to seek out the help of a mage known not
only for his vast, magical power, but also for his great wisdom and kindness. He needed the help of
Argus Cade. Yet almost immediately upon passing through the dimensional barrier separating his world
from Terra, he had known that something was wrong. He had used magic taught to him by Argus himself
to slip through the barrier, appearing inside the old mage's home, but there had been something in the air.
No, he corrected himself. There was a lack of something.
His taloned feet gripped the edge of the stone tower, and he tilted his horned head to look down at
the vast ocean surrounding this great fortress suspended above the emerald waters by powerful spells.
How peaceful it seems here, Verlis mused. But no one knew better than he that looks could be
deceiving.
He had come to this world of mages only to find that his friend and confidant, his last hope, had
died. But now it seemed that Argus might not have been his last hope after all. Verlis had learned of the
mage's passing from Argus's own son. The boy looked like the child of any mage, and yet he was as
much an outcast in this magical world as Verlis was. Timothy Cade had been born with a most unusual
malady. Terra was a world of magic; the entire planet hummed with interconnected lines of magic, a kind
of power matrix. Everything had been built by magic. And every person in that world had magic inside
them, the same way the Wurm had fire.
But Timothy Cade was without any magic at all. He had been born empty of it. He was an
un-magician—the only one that Terra had ever seen. Timothy could not perform even the simplest spell.
Worse, magic broke down at his touch. He was like a blank spot, a hole ripped into the magical matrix
of the world. Timothy was a most unusual creature indeed, and Verlis had learned that the mages feared
the boy nearly as much as they feared the Wurm. Perhaps more. For Timothy was something they could
not understand, a boy fast becoming a young man to whom none of their rules or expectations applied.
A gentle breeze blew in from across the ocean, caressing the hard, scaled body of the winged
creature, and again Verlis felt that brief respite of pleasure, but promptly dismissed it. His clan, his family,
was in danger.
Timothy had promised to help his clan just as Argus would have, but first he had had to resolve a
crisis on Terra, in the city of Arcanum. Nicodemus, the Grandmaster of the Order of Alhazred, had
murdered others of Verlis's kind and used his position for foul purposes. When Timothy and his loyal
companions had attacked SkyHaven, Nicodemus's home, Verlis had flown into battle alongside them.
Now Nicodemus was no more, and they were preparing to slip through the dimensional barrier
again. Timothy was going to return to Draconae with Verlis and do whatever he could to help. The
Wurm did not know how much help the boy would be, but he had faith in Timothy, and he was pleased
to be going home.
Verlis turned to face the rising sun. It was truly glorious, and he struggled to recall the last time he
had experienced a joy so simple. Images of his own world filled his mind—the sky so often darkened
with clouds of thick, volcanic ash and the dreaded ice barrens that bordered his home city on Draconae.
The harshness of that environment, however, was nothing compared to the situation his clan was in now,
hunted by their own kind, in the midst of a terrible civil war. Time was of the essence, and Verlis prayed
to his ancient dragon gods that he would not be too late.
Spreading his wings to their full span, Verlis prepared to take flight. It was nearly time for them to
depart. He would need to find Timothy and review their plans once more. There was far too much at
stake to leave anything to chance. His powerful wings beat the air, and as he rose up from his perch, he
noticed out of the corner of his eye something was moving. He turned his great horned head, but it was
not Timothy, nor any of his loyal friends, who moved quickly toward him.
Six mages approached, four males and two females, dressed in vestments of solid black, the
morning sunlight glinting off diagonal rows of golden buttons that adorned their chests. The Wurm was
about to address them when the first one lashed out.
A bolt of pure, crackling magic erupted from one of the men's hands, striking the dragon's left wing.
Verlis cried out in surprise and fell to the rooftop, his wing immediately numbed.
"What treachery is this?" he roared.
But the six mages remained eerily silent, their eyes devoid of all emotion.
"I am a guest of Timothy Cade and Grandmaster Leander Maddox," he explained, certain that there
must be some kind of mistake.
Still the humans said nothing, their hands glowing and sizzling with magical energy.
The Wurm surged to his feet as his attackers encircled him. "If it is a fight you seek," he snarled, his
voice like the rumble of an approaching storm, "then I am more than happy to oblige."
A female was next to attack, her voice high and shrill as she uttered a spell that created spheres of
solid magic in the air. Verlis spoke a spell of his own, erecting a shield of pulsing blue force only a
heartbeat before those spheres streaked toward him. They would have battered him, and even with his
tough Wurm hide, they might have shattered his bones. Another mage shot a hand forward and sent a
blast of blistering crimson magic searing through the air at him. Verlis turned his reptilian body to counter
the assault. The attack sparked and flashed as it smashed into his shield, and the Wurm stumbled
backward with the intensity of the blow.
He was hit from behind by three enchanted strikes and spun around with a ferocious roar. Verlis
tried to deflect the magic, but his attackers' spells were relentless, pummeling him with their combined
strength and driving him to his knees. The Wurm's magical shield shattered with a sound like breaking
glass and the aggressors closed in, their spells raining mercilessly down upon his weakening form.
Liquid fire, the most destructive of weapons in the Wurm's arsenal, churned in his chest. Verlis
raised his horned head and gazed at his assailants through angry eyes. He inhaled, opening his mouth of
razor-sharp teeth, flames roiling at the back of his throat, and let loose a stream of fire from his gaping
maw.
"How careless," he heard an authoritative voice say from somewhere up on the tower. But he was
more concerned with the enemies before him. First things first.
The flames blossomed outward, hungrily reaching for the first of the attackers. The men and women
recoiled as his burning breath drew near, but it did not touch them. Something had stopped the fire,
freezing the tongues of flame in midair. The Wurm took a deep breath and expelled another incendiary
blast, and again the flames hung petrified in the air like strangely beautiful sculptures of angry orange and
red.
A tall, older mage in a long gray cloak appeared before the stunned Verlis, eyeing him with a curious
tilt of his head. "How careless indeed," he repeated, a long-fingered hand reaching up to smooth the ends
of his long mustache. His hair was black and his eyes a gray that matched his cloak.
Verlis snarled.
"My, you are a fearsome devil, aren't you?" the cloaked stranger observed.
Then, as quick as a thought, the stranger extended his hand and a powerful bolt of magic exploded
from his fingertips, striking Verlis in the center of his broad, barrel chest. The Wurm was thrown violently
backward, the world spinning crazily as he struggled to remain conscious.
"Rule number one," the man announced to the others, holding up a single finger for all to see. "Know
your enemy as well as you know yourselves."
Through bleary eyes Verlis watched the newcomer pace before his attackers, who now stood stiffly
at attention, hands clasped behind their backs. He brushed his cloak back with a flourish.
"Know his every action, even before he decides to take it," he continued, looking sternly into each of
their faces. "That is how you will survive in a world fraught with danger."
"Yes, Constable Grimshaw," the six mages responded in unison, eyes straight ahead.
Mustering his strength, Verlis climbed unsteadily to his feet, standing to his full height, still refusing to
succumb. "I have done nothing, yet you attack me." His legs trembled beneath him. "I want to know
why."
The constable's back was to him, and the man slowly turned, a cruel smile on his face. "I would
think that rather obvious, monster," he answered. "Your kind does not belong in this world."
The constable walked toward him. "Wurms, savages, freakish little boys who cannot wield magic,
but can make men from metal. None of you belongs, and that is why I have been called."
Verlis was stunned. The constable was speaking not only of him, but also of Timothy Cade and his
companions.
Grimshaw raised his hand again and allowed the magic to flow. This spell was even more brutal than
the first, and Verlis cried out in agony. Drained of the strength to fight, Verlis slumped to the rooftop as
the constable's assault pounded him into unconsciousness.
"I am here to restore order from chaos," Verlis heard the Constable say as he slid into the embrace
of dark, cold oblivion.
Order from chaos.
Chapter One
Timothy Cade stood on the ocean floor, rocked by the rhythm of the water, and he gazed around at
the wondrous undersea landscape. It was so peaceful beneath the waves. He had always found a cool
serenity there, as though it were a dream. Reeds flapped like banners, pushed and pulled by the deep
tide. Dozens of breeds of fish swam in these waters, a kaleidoscope of colors in motion. Burrow crabs
skittered from beneath clumps of prickly plants into the warrens of coral that jutted from the ocean
bottom, pale castles that looked as though they had been carved of bone.
He wore a tunic into which he had sewn pockets that were filled with enough sand to weigh him
down. In his hands, Timothy carried a speargun, a device that had been simple for him to construct. All
he needed to do was pump the barrel several times to increase pressure inside the chamber and then pull
the trigger, and the short spear would fire, its flint-rock tip slicing the water. In his first excursions below
the waves, he had quickly learned that though some fish were good to eat and some served other
purposes, none of them was easy to catch. And some of them were truly dangerous.
Timothy breathed slowly, hearing his inhalations inside his head, and he was careful not to disrupt the
air tube that trailed behind him, leading up to the surface and then to the shore. At his end the tube had a
mouthpiece he fastened to his face with Yaquis tree sap and straps that tied behind his head. On the
other end, back on the shore, was the air pump, a device that used the crash of the waves, the pull of the
tide, to drive the bellows that sent air down the tube. As a young boy, Timothy had been single-minded
when an idea for a new invention struck him. At the age of eight he had discovered that a hollowed-out
length of Lemboo plant was pliant, durable, and waterproof. Weeks later, he had laid enough of it end to
end—connections wrapped in an elastic sheath of boar skin—that he could walk a full minute straight out
from the shore into the water and still have air.
The combination of his speargun and the air tube made it simple to catch fish or to scavenge other
things off the ocean floor. Yet it was not fishing that had drawn him beneath the waves to begin with. He
still preferred the calming, almost meditative experience of fishing off the jetty to submerging himself in
search of dinner. No, what he loved best about the underwater world was the sense of discovery.
Until recently, Timothy had spent his entire youth on the tiny Island of Patience, which sat in the vast
ocean of an unknown world. There might have been other islands, entire continents, species of intelligent
creatures, on that world, but Timothy had never encountered them. The island had been his only home,
and it was small enough that he could have walked all the way around it in a day and a night. It was so
small, in fact, that when he had realized he could venture into the ocean, it was one of the happiest days
of his young life.
Timothy had found a mystery to explore.
In time, of course, he came to know the ocean floor all around Patience as well as he knew the
island itself. But with the surge of the tides and the migrations of the ocean life, the sea changed far more
than the land. And so he returned from time to time to explore the waters, examine a plant he had not
studied before, or capture a fish whose flavor he had not enjoyed when cooked over a fire, wondering if
his tastes had changed with age. More Lemboo tubes were added, to give him greater range in his marine
exploration, but he knew that his crude breathing apparatus would never let him explore as deeply as he
wished.
The ocean remained a mystery that he had only begun to investigate.
Now, as he walked along the spongy bottom, speargun in hand, eyes long since grown immune to
the sting of salt water, he recalled the lingering sadness of curiosity. He had been curious about what lay
beyond the island, above and below the water. But he had been far more curious about the world of his
birth and about the city of Arcanum where his father was still living—his father, the great mage Argus
Cade.
A whiskerfish darted past Timothy, only inches from his face. He smiled, catching himself before the
smile grew too wide. If he stretched his face too much, it could unseal the sap he had used to glue the
mouthpiece to his skin.
Troublemaker, he thought, glaring at the whiskerfish, which paused and then came back toward
him, dancing in the water, wanting to play. Several others came out from the cover of the reeds and soon
they were flitting about, chasing one another.
Then all of them froze, sensing the arrival of something else, something they feared.
The small school of whiskerfish scattered, hiding, and a moment later a muck eel sliced through the
water, shimmying to the ocean floor and snaking along the bottom in search of prey. It ignored Timothy
completely. He was so alien to this place that most of the predatory marine life did not seem to take an
interest in him. Most. Poison sponges and bladefins could be very dangerous, but they rarely came into
shallower waters when the sun shone brightly above.
Most of the marine life Timothy had been forced to name himself. Some of them were similar to
creatures from the world of his birth, and those he had named based upon the pictures he had seen in
books his father had brought.
Father. Once more his mind turned to Argus Cade.
All through Timothy's youth, his father had visited him regularly. A magical doorway would appear
above the red sands of the island's shore, and his father would arrive to bring him supplies—food and
fabric and books—and sit with him and talk of love and magic and of his mother, who had died giving
birth to Timothy. His father had taught him to read and to write and the basics of numbers and science.
But by the age of four, the boy had already learned much of what could be taught from those books, and
he had yearned for more, longed to explore with his mind just as much as with his body.
That was his own type of magic. For though his body was confined to the island, his mind could
wander as far as his imagination and his intellect could take him. So he had built his workshop, and he
had begun to invent the things that made his life on the Island of Patience more comfortable and more
interesting.
Patience. Timothy had given the island that name himself. It was his life, really. Everything he had.
He had to have patience between his father's visits, and patience each time he asked the old mage if he
would ever be able to return to the world of his birth.
"Some day, I hope," his father would say.
But Timothy could hear another answer in his voice. The world of mages, the realm from which he
came, was ruled entirely by magic. It was in the air, in the ground, in every structure, and in every man,
woman, and child.
All except for Timothy Cade.
He was a freak, a monster, an abomination, who never should have been born. Or, at least, those
were the slurs Argus Cade feared would be hurled upon his son. He had been certain that Timothy would
be in danger, that there would be those who would want to destroy him, as if this infant un-magician
could infect the world with a contagion of un-magic.
So Argus had used his great power to hide his son away, to open a door to another dimension and
keep Timothy safe.
Though the boy had been lonely, he had been safe, and he was not without friends. There was Ivar,
the last survivor of the Asura tribe, whom Timothy's father had placed upon the island to save the warrior
from those who wished him harm, years before Timothy himself had arrived. And the boy had also
constructed a friend. He had built a steam-driven, mechanical man whom he called Sheridan. The warrior
and the metal man had taken a very long time to adjust to each other, but they had been courteous
because both of them were fond of Timothy. Over the years they had developed a grudging respect for
each other. So though the boy was lonely, he was not entirely alone.
Yet he had always longed for more, to explore not only this world, but that of his birth, and any
others that might exist. But he had been safe, and that was as his father wanted.
Now Argus Cade was dead.
His father would never visit the shores of Patience again, would never smile and clap him on the
shoulder, would never bring him another book, never wrap him in a tender embrace and say those words
he had always said upon his departure.
You will see me soon.
But Timothy would not see him soon. Not ever again, except perhaps after his own spirit moved on.
His own soul. If he even had a soul. The Order of Alhazred—to which his father had
belonged—believed that a person's magical essence was their soul. This was the part of them that
lingered after death, that lived again in a realm of spirits. Many of the other guilds that belonged to the
Parliament of Mages believed the same.
If they were correct, then what did that mean for Timothy, who had no magic?
Now, striding across the ocean bottom, he tried to stop the thoughts from coming, stop the
questions that came into his mind. Shafts of sunlight knifed down through the warm water and sparkled
like a rainfall of gems in the currents. He narrowed his eyes and searched for any sign of a Bathelusk, the
fish he had come searching for today. A large, dark shadow moved beyond the columns of sunlight, and
he moved toward it.
But ugly thoughts snuck back into his mind. Memories both thrilling and unsettling. Things to
celebrate, and others to grieve.
One morning the door had opened on the sand and it had not been his father come to visit, but
Argus Cade's favorite student, a burly, red-bearded mage named Leander Maddox. He not only brought
the terrible news that Timothy's father was dead, but he also brought freedom. Despite Argus's cautions,
Leander had not believed that Timothy would be reviled, that he would be a freak, an outcast in the
world. He had convinced the young man to return with him, to enter his father's house for the first time
since birth.
Timothy and his friends had taken up residence in his ancestral home, and Leander had introduced
him to Nicodemus, the Grandmaster of the Order of Alhazred. The boy had allowed himself to hope, to
become excited over the prospect of investigating the world of his birth, this realm of magic and mages.
The tragedy was that Argus Cade had been correct.
For it was not long after Timothy had left the Island of Patience that the first attempt upon his life had
come. Assassins had infiltrated his father's house and tried to kill him. For his protection, Nicodemus and
Leander had suggested he move into SkyHaven, the Grandmaster's fortress, which floated in the air
above the ocean, just offshore from the city of Arcanum.
Yet even there he was not safe. Other assassins came. Nicodemus explained to him that some of the
magical guilds wanted him dead because they felt he was an abomination, a blemish on the face of the
world. But others wanted to kill him because they feared what he was capable of. Without magic, the
Grandmaster had explained, he could be the perfect spy. The spells they used to defend their homes, to
sense intruders, would neither notice Timothy, nor keep him out. And the many guilds in the Parliament of
Mages were always suspicious of one another, so the idea that such a person existed did not sit well with
them.
Afraid for his life, frustrated and angry at having become their target, Timothy decided to become
what they feared—a spy for the Order of Alhazred. But in so doing he discovered a terrible truth.
Nicodemus had the darkest heart imaginable. He was a killer, and worse. The Parliament of Mages had
assigned Leander as a special investigator to look into the mysterious disappearances of a number of
mages. Nicodemus had killed them all and trapped their spirits as wraiths, as his ghostly slaves.
As the truth began to reveal itself, Leander had confronted Nicodemus and been captured. Timothy
and his friends had attacked SkyHaven to rescue Leander. During their invasion the boy had come face
to face with the Grandmaster—who had been leeching the magical life force from his victims to extend his
own life—and destroyed him.
Now the Parliament of Mages was attempting to make sense of it all, and Timothy had retreated to
the Island of Patience so that he could center himself, although briefly, before he fulfilled his promise to
Verlis.
And every time he allowed his memory to go back to that fateful day when they had flown across
the ocean and stormed SkyHaven's battlements, one single image lingered: a girl in a long, gauzy green
dress with ghostly pale skin and flowing, bright red hair. She had stood atop one of the towers amid that
fortress and gestured to him, as if guiding him toward the most strategic, the most vulnerable, place to
infiltrate SkyHaven.
Then she had disappeared.
Even after Nicodemus was destroyed and the battle was over, even after the Parliament had taken
over SkyHaven and begun to discover its secrets, there had been no sign of this mysterious, beautiful girl.
Leander had even suggested that Timothy might have imagined her.
But Timothy knew she was no product of his imagination. He had seen her, and the images of her
red hair blowing in the wind, of her graceful form atop that tower, lingered in his mind.
Even here beneath the waves he could not escape her.
He sucked air through the mouthpiece of the tube, and with thoughts of the mystery girl in green
flitting across his mind, he smiled.
The sap he had used to glue the mouthpiece in place cracked, and water began to seep in. Timothy's
eyes went wide in alarm and he nearly dropped his speargun. His pulse sped up and he clapped his free
hand over the mouthpiece, pressing it into place and pausing to steady his breathing. Time to get back to
shore. In his mind he cursed himself for being so foolish. Now he would return to the surface without a
single Bathelusk, the fish he had come down here to catch in the first place.
Frustrated, Timothy turned back toward shore and began trudging along the ocean bottom. He had
been careful to avoid touching it before because he did not want his vision obscured, but now his feet
kicked up clouds of dirt and sand.
Then he froze.
In the brown cloud amid the green water was a pair of fat, yellow fish as big as his head, each of
them covered with cruel-looking spikes that would prick anyone foolish enough to try to grab hold.
Bathelusk.
Timothy raised his speargun.
But he did not smile. He prided himself on not making the same mistake twice.
Timothy was in his workshop, surveying the various tables and shelves for anything that might be
useful for his trip to Wurm World, as he had come to think of it. Verlis had found a way to slip between
dimensions in search of Argus Cade, to plead for the mage's help in saving his family from the terrible civil
war among the Wurm. Timothy's father was dead, of course, but the young man had promised to do
whatever he could to help Verlis. In return, Verlis had offered to help him defeat Nicodemus.
Now that Grandmaster of the Order of Alhazred was no more. Verlis had done his part, and it was
time for Timothy to do his.
He scratched his head and looked at a wooden crate he had begun to pack. The speargun was in
there, along with a weapon he had built for hunting birds, a crossbow. A smaller box containing two fresh
and several dried Bathelusk went in as well. There was a slingshot. Now he stared at his forge and
wondered if he would have time to hammer some of the metal in his workshop into armor for his torso,
or even a helmet.
It wouldn't be a terrible idea.
More importantly, though, he wanted to make sure that the saltweed cloak he was making would be
ready. The garment would be ugly, but it would also be fireproof.
"Time, time, time," Timothy whispered to himself, rubbing his mouth where the tree sap was still
sticky. "Once all I had was time, and now there isn't enough of it."
On another table was a rack of various herbs and potions in Lemboo tubes he wanted to bring with
him. There were healing remedies there, as well as other things, tinctures to darken the skin, mixtures that
would start a small fire when exposed to air, and—
His thoughts were interrupted by a loud clatter at the reed door of the workshop. It swung open and
Sheridan—the mechanical man Timothy had built—clanked in, moving backward. Steam whistled from
the pressure valve on the side of his head. Together, he and Ivar were carrying a large barrel into the
workshop. The Asura warrior frowned as Sheridan bumped the open door.
Timothy flinched.
"No, no .. . please, you two, be careful!"
He rushed across the workshop. Ivar's face was stoic as always, the tribal markings on his flesh
shifting fluidly, beautifully. The Asura's skin was covered in pigment that could be changed simply by
willing it, so that he could blend into his surroundings and effectively become invisible. Timothy had often
been mesmerized by the movements of those marks. Now, though, he was only panicked.
Ivar raised a fleshy brow.
Sheridan's head turned around halfway, but his body remained forward, holding up his end of the
barrel.
"What's wrong, Timothy?" the mechanical man asked. "We've upset you."
"No, it's ... Look, you should've taken that around the front," the young man said. Then he shook his
head. "Go through the shop and out the front door. But whatever you do, don't drop it. It might be
completely safe ... but it might not be."
"Not safe?" the Asura warrior asked, one corner of his mouth lifting in amusement. "What will it do?
You expect a barrel to attack us?"
Timothy smiled, but his heart was still pounding. "No. But since the barrel is filled with Hakka
powder and coal, I can't promise you it won't explode."
Sheridan's eyes lit up, blindingly bright in the gray light of the workshop, and steam hissed from the
side of his head. He swiveled around to stare at Ivar. "Be careful."
"Oh, yes," Ivar replied.
He was kind enough not to mention that it had not been him bumping into doors with a barrel of
explosive powder.
Timothy turned to make sure their path was clear. Even as he did, a black shape flashed through the
open front door with a flutter of dark wings and an excited cry. It was Edgar, the rook that had been the
familiar of Timothy's father, and now of the boy himself.
"Caw, caw!" the bird called. "On the beach! The door. The door has returned!"
Timothy smiled and would have gone straight out the door, but in that moment Sheridan bumped a
workbench and nearly dropped his end of the barrel. Ivar muttered an Asura curse that Timothy had
heard him use hundreds of times, but that the warrior had never been willing to translate. With a sigh, the
boy waited to make sure his friends managed to get the barrel outside without blowing up the workshop,
or themselves.
Then he took off, sprinting toward the beach.
He had spent his lifetime with only Sheridan and Ivar for company. Much as he loved them both, in
his brief time in the world of his birth he had come to appreciate the companionship of others. Timothy
Cade was deeply grateful for the friendship of Leander Maddox, and hoped he would build other
friendships as well. Lacking even a single blood relative, he was gathering around himself a different kind
of family. One of his own choosing. And in that strange family, Leander Maddox would certainly be
counted as his favorite uncle.
Red sand flew up from beneath his feet as he ran toward the shoreline. The surf rolled up the beach,
dampening the sand only inches from an ornate door frame that stood impossibly alone. The door hung
open, and in front of it was a massive figure in flowing robes of green and gold, a hood shading his face
from the suns. Upon his chest, and upon the crest of his hood, was the insignia of the Order of Alhazred,
the sleeping dragon.
"Leander!" Timothy shouted.
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