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couple of weeks. He is young, but he will be big enough to dissuade any challengers before age ever weakens or slows you enough to have to worry. We will need to protect him now, though.”
    Fredin thought about that. He did need to get his grandson. They needed the women as well. Now that they had a home they needed to send for the women and children. Boys would not grow into fighters if women raised them. They needed the women anyway , as they had lost too many trying to take Evermount and they needed to start repopulating. His numbers would continue to grow—he would make sure of that. In a few years this mountain would be full, and the Dungins would be unstoppable.
    “Let me know when the women and children start to arrive. I want to know whenever we have new clans—any new arrivals will be reported to me immediately, and the leader of the group will be brought to me directly. We lost a lot of males, so there will be ten women to each male. Each male will take at least two or three. The biggest female from each clan that comes will come to me. I need sons,” Fredin told his advisor.
    “What about the humans? More have come. At first it was only the three. Now there are eleven. Can they help with the reconstruction? There are a couple areas that, if rebuilt, would make movement through the mountain a lot easier. We have cleared them out the best we can, but we can’t go any farther without reinforcing them.”
    Fredin considered that for a minute. The wizard had somehow got word out that he was here. Others of the Black Dragons—a guild of wizards and assassins who served Delvidge, the god of chaos—had already come. The Black Dragons had guild houses in all of the major cities, and agents in the smaller ones. The organization was big, powerful, and dangerous. Delvidge had sent the Black Dragons to help the orcs take Evermount and kill Anwar and all of his friends, but Delvidge had underestimated the wizard’s power. If the rumors were true, Anwar had actually pulled Delvidge into the mortal plane and had been ready to kill him when the other gods came down and intervened. After the failure at Evermount, none of them had received any sign from their god. As far as they knew they were on their own. They didn’t know if they were being punished or—as the Black Dragons were hearing on the streets of Ambar—if their god had been forced to stay out of the activities of the mortal plane. The leader of the guild, holed up in Evermount, had told Fredin that he’d send out a couple of wizards to make sure that Fredin would have word if there was any movement by the dwarves or the crazed mage who had destroyed his army, but other than that, the humans hadn’t made any contributions to Dungin Mountain.
    “I will see what they can do to help. It is time they pulled their weight around here , even if that doesn’t amount to much.”
    Gescheit nodded and took off down the tunnels to continue running the day -to-day operations of the mountain. Fredin had to admit having someone who was intelligent and who spoke with his authority made things a lot easier, especially in a less-than-organized orc society. Now he needed to go find the wizard and make sure the humans were contributing. On the other hand, he might be able to use the fact that they weren’t doing anything to help him with his other problem. If Gescheit whispered about the lazy humans to the Narrens, he might just be able to get the clan chief to complain about that. If the Narren clan chief raised a concern, Fredin would take it as a challenge and force him into a fight. Once Narren had challenged him he would have no choice but to fight, and then he would kill the other clan chief and claim his orcs as Dungins.
     
    Vingaza, wizard and guild master of the Black Dragons, had to admit he was impressed. Fredin had taken a huge hit at Evermount. No one could have predicted that Anwar had become so strong. Fredin had acted quickly, gathering a sizable force and