“You will never get there. None of us will ever get there now. We are overrun. They will find us, take the book and kill us all. At least, they will kill us. I am not sure about you.”
“Then we have little to lose, do we?” said Akbar. “The dragonrider's plan makes sense. But it is my opinion we should divide the book into two. Dervil can take one half and we the other. That way, there is less chance of the King being able to retrieve the complete article. They would need to find both of us.”
“I don't need you to cut a book in two, Akbar,” the warrior said. “I can do it with my sword.”
“Yes, yes, but you do not know if the important magic is in the one half. No one does. But I can divide it so that neither part is usable without the other. They would need both halves to make any use of th
