“Power is all you ever cared for, and you are left without even that. The First of the Magi, and the last.” “So it would seem. Does that not please you?” “I take no pleasure in this, Bayaz. This is what must be done.” “Ah. A righteous battle? A holy duty? A crusade, perhaps? Will God smile on your methods, do you think?” Mamun shrugged. “God smiles on results.”
