CHAPTER 46 Penrys didn’t like the windowless mage council room any better this time, but at least Zandaril and she were no longer the focus of attention. A private dinner had been provided, but it didn’t appeal to her, not after that news. She noted the reappearance of Dhumkedbhod with an expressionless nod and withheld her reaction to his scowl. The others were the same—Zongchas, Vladzan, and the somewhat enigmatic Nyagchos, the man who had wanted to “see what would happen” when the first attack from the students was launched at her. Nyagchos questioned Zongchas. “They did not descend north of the Craggies to spend the winter in the farmsteads there?” Where the Kigali forces could be encouraged to confront them, with or without Rasesni assistance. Penrys ticked that prediction off her