sentences:  After slipping into the center of the AAnn government and confronting the emperor, who is determined to execute Flinx for his brashness and insult to the AAnn, Flinx once again projects himself and nearly a hundred AAnn lords into the mind of the Great Evil.This not only kills some of the lords and drives others comatose, but convinces the emperor to release Flinx to fight off the Evil.The emperor even goes so far as to order all AAnn aggression against Commonwealth systems to cease for a year so that Flinx can travel without worry outside the Commonwealth’s sphere of influence.