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| 21 | 93 | View more quotes about similarly">Similarly, in the very palace, I had recently sensed Kur. |
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| 21 | 90 | The wager, I supposed, if it were a wager, was underway. |
| 21 | 91 | Interestingly, I was unclear as to the gambling involved, in particular, who might favor which participant, Yamada or Temmu? For example, it seemed probable that the Priest-Kings had preserved the remnants of the forces of Temmu, but this did not imply that they favored that house. |
| 21 | 92 | They might have been doing no more than preparing the dice, a preparation in which the Kurii might themselves have collaborated. |
| 21 | 93 | Similarly, in the very palace, I had recently sensed Kur. |
| 21 | 94 | Did this mean that the Kurii favored the house of Yamada? Perhaps it was there to monitor matters, and little more. |
| 21 | 95 | More importantly, I had no reason to trust either Kurii or Priest-Kings with respect to more than a pretence of impartiality. |
| 21 | 96 | I had no reason to believe that Kurii, long confined to their steel spheres, and desperate to obtain a fresh, unspoiled world after they had ruined their own, would abide a negative result of the wager with equanimity. |