The Master is Equal Parts Guile and Evil: A Short Story

The omens are propitiously malign and the Lotus of Despair is in their possession; and tonight, Xantha and Slashusha - the most powerful free demons in all the Everlasting Planets - are set to break the Master out of his prison in the Nameless Tomb. The Legions of Hanan are powerless to stop them, but that doesn't mean they'll succeed: after all, the Master always was equal parts guile and evil...