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And we’re back! Of course it’s a scene change, I wasn’t going to pause mid-scene! Don’t be sad. We have not seen the last of that lion.

When last we left our heroes, Duane had teamed with Toma and Elka in pursuit of the genocidal First Silver weapon terrorizing Cresce and making for his homeland. Its master, the maniacal lizard Cutter, teased Duane of a manipulator bigger than either of them. Meanwhile, Knock is intent on saving her cousin Anadyne from the Silver’s predation… if there’s anything to save. And the Queen - the seeming target of the Silver’s attack, the sudden Aldish snake-flying airmen, and the lizard insurrectionists in the Silver’s shadow - is holed up in the mayor’s manor hiding from all three, with a protective group of Black Tongue sorcerers and Toma’s own little daughter. Her Majesty may have at last pressed her luck to the breaking point! Lord General Bell has stacked too much against her. He WILL have her throne! And the annihilation of a few innocent cities is a sacrifice he’s willing to make.