The perspective presented in the mirror seemed to be based on a window, and Duncan felt as if he was someone sticking close to the window, observing the scene inside the room through the glass. In the room was an exceptionally tall young woman whose profile looked vaguely familiar.
After a brief moment of recollection, Duncan remembered where he had seen that face before—it was High Judge Fenna Wayne, whose prestige was at its height in the city-state of Prand!
Her image had been in the newspapers.
Why was he seeing such a scene? Why was he suddenly looking through a window at this follower of the Storm Goddess? Some kind of secret connection? When had this connection been established? Why had he never noticed it before, and yet now he suddenly felt this invisible "line"?
Countless thoughts flashed through Duncan's mind in an instant, but in the next second, the chaotic ideas in his head were interrupted by something his eyes swept across.
