“ The mother of all snakes has three faces: She whispers wisdom to you, she lures you with beauty, she devours you in anger. And all three are true.” naga proverb       Third Void Day of Mortis, 126 HR Morânia and Naghûl had been unusually quiet on their way to the portal that would lead them to the realm of the naga goddess Shekinester. Otherwise, they would chat or joke about this and that but on this day, dangers and unpredictable risks lay ahead of them, ventures whose outcome was unclear at best. So they remained silent most of the way from the Festhall to the Market Ward, lost in their own thoughts. After Red Shroud had named the abandoned Opal Tears Palace on the edge of the Court of Light as the meeting place, the question had naturally been: how to get there from Sigil by the shortest route. Factol Ambar had called on the services of Lissandra the Gate-Seeker, and she had given him the location of a suitable portal. It was located in the basement...