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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. 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'' arriving at the island. Riina became distracted attending the defense of her island, giving Tress and Charlie the opportunity to use her computer to communicate with Fort and [[Salay]]. During their conversation, Tress realized the nature of Hoid's curse. Knowing that Hoid's curse would be broken if he reached the tower and that he could potentially defeat the Sorceress, she instructed Salay, Fort, and [[Ann]] to bring Hoid with them to the tower.{{book ref|tress|62}} During all of this, Charlie had been trying to reach the door of the tower, but the Sorceress' cat had been making that impossible. As Salay, Fort, Ann, and Hoid finally arrived at the base of the tower, he told Tress to distract the sorceress as he made a last ditch effort. Tress did distract the Sorceress, and the Sorceress began to prepare a curse for Tress using AonDor. Just as the curse was about to transform Tress, Hoid burst into the tower and blocked it with his own AonDor spell. After a brief conversation, Riina offered to let the crew leave the island. Tress refused and instead demanded Riina herself leave the planet for her crimes against the inhabitants of Lumar. Riina dismissed this threat until Tress ordered Hoid to help and he indicated that he would. Riina weighed her odds and decided to comply with Tress' order. After Tress and the crew left, she departed the planet in her tower, which was also a spaceship.{{book ref|Tress|64}}
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