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    Summary

    She sacrificed everything to restore his sanity. He... got her executed.
    But you know what? Vulture butt.
    The death thing didn't take. You can't keep a good spy (or a better shaman) down. She's headed back to Agency HQ on HIS most expensive horse. So there.
    Inside, though, Nerguitani (No Name Girl) feels unsettlingly off-balance... and not just because she's so shockingly new to horseback riding. Surely not shaman's madness already? And if she's not herself, then who is she? Someone who'd face 272 kinds of Hell sooner than be pimped out to a career-length series of highly-placed psychos, apparently.
    If only she knew what fond friends she'd made during her short stay in the capital. Or that Great Khan Ogedei has a plan she'd like much better. Or that Ogedei's reckless brother Chagatai has his own --- well --- more of an impulse than a plan, really.
    Meanwhile, Greater Mongol's once-more-celebrated general Baiju Noyan, now governor of a plum province, is getting lucky more often than a set of loaded sheep-ankle bones. Yet, somehow, uneasy lies the head that wears the crown... and the other head, too...

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