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for a short time, and it's dangerous.
Queen Solace – the Surcleres were pre-eminent experts on the
Eferum, and the Queen discovered a way to prolong the amount of
time she could endure in the Eferum, immensely increasing the
strength of the focus stone she would be able to summon. But the
Grand Summoning, as well as the obvious destruction, caused the
barrier between the Eferum and this world to weaken, and there were
a great many incursions. Most natural breaches aren't open wide or
long enough for many Eferum-Get – what you'd call Night Roamers –
to get through, but the Grand Summoning created rifts of dangerous
length."
    "Night Roamers are going to come out of
Falk?"
    "No. This projection is something unique
to the Grand Summoning, a physical manifestation of the spell, of
the amount of power the caster is drawing to bear. What you can
feel when you come into its range is the weight of the Efera
itself. It is...the strength of it will dwarf all of Tyrland's
mages, make us into ants. Whoever is casting this will be like a
god to us if they complete the Summoning."
    "How do we stop it then?" Kendall asked
practically. "Prince Tiandel stopped Queen Solace didn't he?"
    "Prince Tiandel knew the precise
construction of the Grand Summoning, witnessed its casting, and had
been entrusted with Queen Solace's younger focuses, which he used
as a tool against her. He would not share the knowledge after; we
don't even know precisely what he did to kill her beyond disrupting
the Summoning with the focuses. Then – there was a great backlash
against the Surclere line after Queen Solace's death, and Tiandel
Montjuste-Surclere renounced claim to the throne and withdrew from
society. Hero and villain. It was Tiandel who assisted her, Tiandel
who helped prepare the spell, who had custody of her library, all
her researches. There were frequent attacks against him, calls from
the Court to have him brought to account, many stories that he
intended to attempt the Grand Summoning himself. Yet it is believed
that it was actually loyalists of the Black Queen who set fire to
his home. The entire Montjuste-Surclere family were killed, and
that library, all the primary records of the Black Queen's
researches – gone."
    "Oh." Kendall stared through the
increasing gloom at the White Lady. "So what can we do? Just wait
till whoever she is finishes and hope she's nice?"
    "It may amount to that," Danress
muttered. "Of course, there is this mess, and there will be the
incursions to deal with. Beyond that – you realise how important it
is to find that woman, don't you? She knew, before any of us, that
the Distortion circle would expand, that this was a Grand
Summoning. She must know the caster, probably knows the initiating
point. If we're to do anything at all, we need to find that place,
and be ready for the caster's return from the Eferum."
    "I guess," Kendall said
unenthusiastically. She hadn't been entirely convinced that silly
woman was really involved at all until one of the Ferumguard – the
Sentene's outriders – had returned from Morebly with a blank scrap
of paper. Lady Weston said the writing must have been conjured, so
it couldn't be used to trace her, even if she was close enough to
trace. "I don't see how we're going to find her, though. She's long
gone. Are you going to collect all the black-haired girls in
Tyrland for me to look at?"
    "Not that improbable an idea," Danress
replied. "All the black-haired mages, at least. We will certainly
be combing the Register for anyone who fits the description you
gave."
    "What about the White Lady? You saw her
up close, didn't you? Lady Weston didn't recognise her?"
    "No. And she's certainly distinctive. An
outland mage, perhaps? It's more than confusing, because the White
Lady sightings have been occurring for centuries. The most recent
was in Loise, almost sixty years ago, but there was no expansion in
any of the previous cases. It's a greatly confusing thing to
discover this White Lady is