[Urgent notice!
Damage to the physical and metaphysical bodies has exceeded the permissible limit: 64.5%... 68%... 70.5%...
Probability of all of the host’s functions ceasing: 94%...95%...96.7%...
Transfer control to the computing module?]
“This isn’t over yet…” Hadjar growled.
He reached out deeper into the Name of the Wind. He reached out to where his faithful friend and brother came from — the North. He called it to battle — this one, and all the subsequent ones. Hadjar didn’t know whether the North responded to his call or not. The North was proud and wayward. It didn’t forgive weakness and didn’t recognize strength. The strong were only equals in the North. It was impossible to be strong where every step was balancing on a thin thread between the precipices of life, where an
