Murnag ta-Valka had no need of light. Sightless she was, but of all the angûthégri, the necromancers, had best acquired the skill of negubrágus, darksight. Those who have darksight can perceive many things about them by the power of their minds. They can receive word from others and send word to them without sound. When Night is moonless and starless their darksight is most powerful, and it is well nigh as strong if they enclose themselves in a place where no light can enter.
From the total blackness of the chamber beneath her house Imbrig, Murnag ta-Valka sent out a dark-call to the great ones of the witch-realm of Nanôr. At once Murungyaldi the Terrible answered her thought. Masláryë ta-Valka, Nabbolô, and Vombarth joined them, their thoughts riding the dark-waves, back and forth, their darksight glancing on one another’s forms.
The sign has been given.
It has.
The Three are doomed to fall.
They are, without fail.
What end is foreseen for Mivgâ the Mighty?
The Grey Sleeper shall consume him.
What of Dreygan the Smith and Fúdrofûr the Proud?
The Trickster shall make each the other’s bane.
The Three shall be no more.
They shall be no more.
The dominion of the Gangri shall be ended.
And the binding of Negobith Night-lord shall be undone.
Negobith shall arise; the Yoke shall go forth.
Yet I, Murnag, forebode a hindrance.
What hindrance can arise?
Before the next Moon-death, Negobith shall stumble.
I have no such foreboding.
Nor I.
Nor I.
No matter: the Thrâkúna will undo the Father’s stumbling.
Their unbinding is not yet provided for.
It must be wrought.
They are your sons, Murnag ta-Valka, not our kin.
They are our surety.
We will take counsel again upon this matter.
I shall be proved right before the next Moon-death.
The Moon shall wither!
Night shall overcome! Mikhan-dâ!
Mikhan-dâ!
Murnag ta-Valka scowled to herself. Was she not the farthest-sighted, the deepest-thoughted, of the Angûthégri of Nanôr?
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