sentences:  Once there, however, they face clear betrayal; the Sultan has chosen to ally himself with Napoleon, probably at the urging of Lien, who is now present in his court, and has seized the exorbitant payment offered him by the British Crown whilst simultaneously reneging on any intent to hand over the eggs in return.Lien makes a private visit to Temeraire and announces that she has set herself to his destruction; as opposed to merely killing him, she wishes to see Temeraire deprived of all he holds dear, and live out the rest of his life in squalor and despondency.In the end, Laurence and his crew simply steal the promised eggs, especially once they discover that one of them, a Kazilik, is a fire-breather, something England has been trying to get into her Aerial Corps for hundreds of years.