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After dinner, Rory continues organizing his notes and trying to determine the crystal coordinates for the manor gate. Trace reasons that since Danilon used the gate system extensively that there ought to be a directory of coordinates somewhere among his papers.

Chalker is interested in the beginning of Danilon's campaigns and the buildup of his army. He locates a comprehensive set of scrolls and bound books for the geopolitical situation of various lands in that era, with annotations by Danilon's researcher or perhaps Danilon himself. Chalker figures he will have to find Danilon's personal journals to glean campaign information, but he finds the annotations offer some insight into Danilon's thought process.

Trace studies the dead ice snake. Next to its venom sac he finds a small organ which concentrates mana. He theorizes that the snake's blood flowing through this organ enabled its unusually fast reflexes and enhanced the effectiveness of its venom. The mana in the organ is depleted, as though some event within the past day had caused the snake to use most of its reserve.