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Following her curse of Hoid, the Sorceress continued her raiding of the Emerald Sea. Due to these pressures the king eventually began to consider it necessary to wage war against the Sorceress. In order to justify this, he began seeking out more support for a war among the populace.{{book ref|Tress|5}}{{book ref|Tress|9}}{{book ref|Tress|17}} As part of this effort, he sent [[Charlie]] to Riina with a marriage proposal under the guise of that this arrangement would be a path toward peace. In truth, he expected the Sorceress to harm Charlie, giving him the ammunition he needed, as well as popular support, for a war.{{book ref|Tress|5}} Upon Charlie's arrival, Riina ordered her troops to take him to his tower. Whilst there, she sent a ransom to the king demanding he hand over souls of the Royal family for the freedom of Charlie. Whilst waiting for his response, she and Charlie talked for a time and she learned of his love for [[Tress]]. When it had become clear that the ransom would go unpaid, Riina elected to curse Charlie, turning him into a rat. She set the terms of breaking the curse to be for him to bring Tress to the Sorceress to be cursed herself.{{book ref|Tress|5}}{{book ref|Tress|61}} Following this, she allowed him to leave and began further raids against the Emerald Sea.{{book ref|tress|9}}
For the next few months, Riina would largely ignore the outside world and focus solely on the activities of Hoid and Charlie on the planet. At some stage she managed to hack into [[Fort]]'s translation device allowing her to see and hear what he did. This served as an easy way for her to keep tabs on the crew of the [[Crow's Song]] and Hoid himself.{{book ref|tress|60}} Hoid speculates that it was around this time she grew worried that he might actually make good on his bet and so began work to sabotage him further.{{book ref|tress|61}} Eventually, by happenstance, both Charlie and Tress arrived on the boat and Riina was able to keep tabs on them as well.{{book ref|tress|60}}{{book ref|tress|13}} She watched Tress' journey to the midnight sea, and eventual capture by the Sorceress' midnight essence.{{book ref|tress|59}}
Upon arriving, Tress attempted to barter for Charlie and. Riina played along, attempting to pass one of her spies off as Charlie using [[lightweaving]]. Tress was about to leave the tower with the fake Charlie when she realized the ruse and turned back to confront Riina, who then explained the full details of Charlie's curse to Tress.{{book ref|tress|61}} While having this conversation with the pair, she failed to notice the crew of the Crow's Song breachingarriving herat defencesthe andisland. gettingRiina justbecame outsidedistracted attending the defense of her tower.island, Thisgiving causedTress Riinaand Charlie the opportunity to panicuse her computer to communicate with Fort and set[[Salay]]. upDuring hertheir defencesconversation, onTress realized the islandnature itselfof leadingHoid's hercurse. toKnowing notthat noticeHoid's Tresscurse would be broken if he reached the tower and Charliethat usinghe hercould ownpotentially computerdefeat tothe communicateSorceress, toshe instructed Salay, Fort, and [[SalayAnn]] about a plan to getbring Hoid intowith thethem towerto itselfthe and break his cursetower.{{book ref|tress|62}}. WatchingDuring herall defencesof failthis, RiinaCharlie stillhad feltbeen trying to reach the door of the tower, but the Sorceress' cat had been making that Hoidimpossible. wouldAs failSalay, sinceFort, thereAnn, wasand noHoid wayfinally forarrived himat tothe enterbase of the tower, shehe wastold mistakenTress howeverto distract the sorceress as Hoidhe managedmade toa sneaklast intoditch effort. Tress did distract the towerSorceress, whilstand shethe turnedSorceress began to tryprepare anda curse for Tress inusing retributionAonDor. forJust ruiningas herthe day.curse Thiswas allowedabout to transform Tress, Hoid toburst breakinto histhe cursetower and blockblocked Riina'sit cursewith his own AonDor spell. FollowingAfter thisa brief conversation, Riina offered to let the crew leave butthe island. Tress refused and instead demanded Riina herself leave the planet for her crimes against localsthe there,inhabitants of Lumar. Riina dismissed this threat until Tress ordered Hoid to help and he indicated that he would. Whilst Riina reckoned thatweighed her chancesodds of losing was only around one-in-five sheand decided thisto wascomply awith risk too much andTress' agreedorder. She hadAfter Tress and herthe crew leaveleft, soshe thatdeparted theythe couldplanet watchin her shiptower, leavewhich thewas systemalso from thea distancespaceship.{{book ref|Tress|64}}
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