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.Fila has convinced him that she s acting for thegeneral good of humanity and that we should be honored in helping her. I know, Sem said. He says things like that when we talk at night. My sister was able to convince many of the People to believe this same thing.That s whyshe has followers. Does your father feel the same way? Jon asked.It s hard to tell.At first, he and Fila were trying to achieve the same goal, yet now Fatherhas disappeared.I expected to find him here; but instead he s off doing something that Fila eitherdoesn t know or refuses to explain.I think it must have to do with the guardian stones somefinal knowledge he suddenly believed he needed to verify. That s strange. Something must have changed somewhere that forced him to rethink his calculations. I wish I knew what it was although it s probably a change only the Rand would besensitive enough to notice.Perhaps a shift in the energy fields they draw their power from. Energy fields? Sem asked. I don t know what else to call them. But what does Krator have to do with all of this? Sem asked. I don t mean about thegame I ve seen that for myself but all this other stuff. Krator isn t the only one who understands the game.Both Talor and I have beenstudying the two books, and Talor has spent considerable time communicating with Krator sincewe arrived here.He says that Krator tries to hold back bits and pieces of information about thegame in an effort to keep from giving away too much but he s seldom successful.Talor canaccess the recesses of Krator s mind, but Krator can t go so deeply into Talor s.Still, it s Kratorwhom the Empress has come to trust, and so the more he knows the better.Her confidence inhim surprised me at first, but then it seemed only natural.No one else speaks with suchassurance, and the Empress understands the importance of speaking with assurance. Was he being sarcastic? Until that moment, Jon had always seemed a gung-ho admirer ofthe Empress. Maybe that s why Krator asked to borrow my tritargon, Sem ventured, wondering howJon would respond.And Jon was clearly startled by this information. He asked to borrow it? That s.interesting.But, of course Krator is always after newknowledge. He said that it would help him communicate with Talor, but that the request was his ownidea. Sem stressed the latter point.He didn t want to implicate Talor in any plot Jon wouldquestion. In that respect, Krator was telling you the truth, Jon said. Talor would never makesuch a suggestion.I ve talked with him about the tritargons, and he is certain that they shouldonly be worn by the men for whom they were originally designed. Sem sensed a deeper meaning behind Jon s words, but it annoyed him that Jon spokewith such authority about a man he d known so briefly. But when you wore my tritargon, nothing bad happened.Does that mean there d be noharm in my lending it to Krator? Temporarily, of course. Jon pulled back. Temporarily? What do you mean? A day or two.A week.No longer than that. I doubt it would do much harm, but that s not for me to say. Like Talor, it appeared, Jon would never urge Sem to hand over his tritargon to Krator,but that reluctance didn t mean Jon perceived no advantage to doing so.Sem could see that Jonwas confused by his question, and had fallen back on something he probably considered aprinciple.The next day, Sem went looking for Krator.It was the Rand s turn to play, and theNew Men were waiting for their opponents to make their next move. I ve been thinking, Krator, he said. About the tritargon you were right to ask toborrow it.If, like you say, it would help your communications with Talor, then the more youlearn from him, the better you can help Axor. You re too late, Ginger.Someone else gave me one someone else who appreciates mysuperior intelligence.Ah, I see that raises your curiosity even a bit of worry. At that, Krator chuckled to himself and walked away.The Ginger meant nothing.People had called him that before although Krator hadobviously used the term to put him down.But only a fool would take offense at something sostupid especially when important matters were at hand.Sem immediately told Jon to tell himwhat he d learned from Krator including the Ginger epithet and together they went lookingfor Talor. Are there spare tritargons floating around? Jon asked him.There are always a few that belonged to men and women who ve died.We bury theirbodies, but remove the tritargons first.To bury a tritargon would be placing life under the earth,so we hold onto the old ones in case one is broken or lost, since it takes time to make a newone.But of course everyone expects one made especially for himself. So the tritargon that Krator has wouldn t work as well as one made with him in mind? Asking that question, Jon was thinking about the tritargon Saash had broken to pieces onthe stone next to the Great River.Wearing it, he hadn t simply used the knowledge it gave him;his mind had been led long certain paths.So what right had Saash to be so angry with him? Ithad been Saash s mind as much as his that had determined the men he d designated forexecution.Had Saash understood that? No, Jon was sure had hadn t.He d seen enough of Saashto appreciate the man s fundamental good will.Yet beneath that good will lay a set of impulsesSaash himself failed to recognize.And had not that lack of self-knowledge been the downfall ofthe Rand?No, not nearly as well at least for the person wearing it
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