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Take a look at my calf muscles. Is the right one bigger?

—UNKNOWN DYSMORPHIC

Wichtig awoke with a great sucking intake of breath, leaving him dizzy. A thronging crowd gathered around him, too many to count. He sat in the street where moments ago . . . what? Memories of creaking ribs and the feeling of the cartilage in his throat being crushed sent shudders coursing through his body. He remembered seeing Bedeckt flee. There was no sign of Stehlen or Morgen. Surely they hadn't left him here.

A scarred man stepped forward, rolling muscled shoulders, to glare at Wichtig. He looked familiar, but Wichtig couldn't place him.

”Didn't take long,” the scarred man growled. ”Not so great, eh?”

Wichtig looked past the man, frowning as he spotted another familiar face. ”As great as ever.” He returned his gaze to the man before him. ”You look familiar.”

”Vollk Urzschluss.”

”Name doesn't ring any bells.”

Vollk grumbled in annoyance. ”Until recently, I was the Greatest Swordsman in Unbrauchbar.”

”I killed you.” Wichtig scanned the crowd, recognizing more faces, few of which he could put names to. ”I killed a lot of you, but surely not this many.” He spotted an attractive girl of perhaps eighteen summers and waved her over. ”There is no way I killed you,” he said with more certainty than he felt.

”I am Geschwister Schlangen, sister to Ma.s.se.”

”Ma.s.se?” Wichtig asked, blinking in confusion.

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”The man who killed you.”

”No, it was—”