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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 3576202" data-attributes="member: 3448">“Is there any way that we can remove the danger?  Draw her out of the influences?”“Perhaps, but the key to that does not lie with her.  There is an image that moves in the North, and that could be the Archduke.  I know that it is not.”Dame Brionna nodded.  “There is someone impersonating his grace.”“It is more than impersonation; it is of his essence!” The Grand Dame gestured emphatically.  “If I did not have the Second Sight, I would be unable to tell, and I have been trained in observation all my life.”“That could be the master of deception you spoke of.”“Perhaps.  If I had to guess, I would say that the false one even believes that he is the Archduke Alistair.”“Do all of the Grand Dames have the Second Sight?”  asked Kit.  “How could the head of the Order of the Pure White Flame remain oblivious then?”“I was picked for having both the Gift and Arcane power.  Not all of the Great Dames have both, but it is better when they do.  My sister in the Order of the Pure White Flame does not.”“I still want to focus on the nature of the imposter,” said Dame Brionna.“It seems to me that somehow, at sometime, probably in the last two or three years, someone has obtained items of Lord Alistair’s.  Possibly blood, possibly… other bodily fluids,” the Grand Dame said awkwardly, with a quick glance in Kit’s direction.Kit said quickly, “Yes, we understand.  Unfortunately, that’s all too plausible.”  She added a curse under her breath about Alistair’s behavior.Grand Dame Sophia cleared her throat and continued, “And has used them to mock him in this one.  If, perhaps-- obviously you, Dame Brionna and Alistair’s other confidants, cannot leave Canberry any time in the next several years, but-- if you have trusted ones, you should send them north.  If you can bring the false one back alive, you can then break the threat.”Dame Brionna nodded curtly.  “We do have trusted agents we can send.”“When you say that we could break the threat, could we release Baroness Francesca’s sister from their hold?”“Indeed, and identify the three who are traitors.  Uncoerced testimony would, I believe, be enough to allow you to question them.”“It would,” confirmed Dame Brionna.“Then, as I said, all may be well if you send your agents north to bring this one back alive.”“We’ll take care of it,” assured Kit.</blockquote>

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