He winked at her. ‘I’ll be fine.’ ‘Of course he will,’ Maximus said. ‘If there’s a lick of trouble, Tavi will set something on fire - it’s easy to set something on fire, believe me - and I’ll see the smoke, knock down all the buildings between him and the dock, come get him, and we’ll leave. Nothing simpler.’ Kitai gave Maximus a steady look. Then she shook her head, and said, ‘And the truly incredible part is . . . you actually believe it.’ ‘Ambassador,’ Max said, ‘in the course of my life, I have more than once been too ignorant to know that something was impossible before I did it anyway. I
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