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"What were you doing in the desert?" the aven said. "And what did you do to the Hekma?"

Jace turned and looked at the iridescent barrier. "Really? You haven't learned this technique yet . . . vizier of the . . . Hekma Guard that you are? Well, of course, that's why I'm here in the . . . Nitin district, to teach you. With Kefnet. Of course."

"P—perhaps I—" the aven stammered.

"Perhaps you should summon Temmet," Jace said. "He'll know what to do."

The aven nodded quickly, then spread his wings and flapped toward the heart of the city.

"Who's Temmet?" Chandra said.

"Some sort of authority figure," Jace said. "I'm sure you'll love him."

Chandra snorted.

"Listen," Jace continued. "This is tricky. Vizier Eknet there had absolutely no conception of a place other than this city. That's why I told him we're from another district. We didn't cross the desert from somewhere else—as far as these people know, there is nowhere else. Let alone an infinite expanse of other places."

TRUST