My Lasher is powerful beyond your dreams of a daimon, and he has learnt much.’ ‘Learned,’ I repeated in amazement. ‘How learned, Deborah, for he is merely a spirit, and they are forever foolish and therein lies the danger, that in granting our wishes they do not understand the complexity of them, and thereby prove our undoing. There are a thousand tales that prove it. Has this not happened? How so do you say learned?
