Learned Edmund is outraged to learn that he's not going to command the mission. But they're not going to Anuket City alone. Slate, possibly because she's the most stable and educated of the three (Brenner may be stable, but not all that educated, and Caliban may be far more educated, but it's not at all clear he's stable), is in charge of this little group. They're all condemned criminals, but they've been offered pardons and rewards if they can successfully complete a mission to Anuket City, to find a wayto defeat the Clockwork Boys, giant centaur-like creatures apparently made out of machine parts, who are ravaging the countryside and threatening the kingdom that, however questionable their characters, our three criminals are subjects of. Then he got careless and a demon possessed him,and it was exorcised, but not until after he'd killed eight temple nuns. In that capacity, he killed or exorcised, depending on circumstances, demons who had possessed people or animals. Slate is a forger and thief, Brenner an assassin, Sir Caliban a former knight-champion of the Dreaming God.
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