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That afternoon he sold what reain at the Guild school

For the post-graduate course

He got full marks, the first person in the history of the Guild ever to do so His seniors described hi about hi ay

In the ceer filled in the hole that was the last resting place of d'Eath senior

He becahts in his head They went so like this:

Any chance of a bone? No, no, sorry, bad taste there, forget I ot beef sandwiches in your wossnaive one to the nice little doggy over there?

The man leaned on his shovel and looked around

The greyhim intently

It said, 'Woof?'

It took Edward d'Eath fivefor The search was ha for, only that he'd knohen he found it Edas a great believer in Destiny Such people often are

The Guild library was one of the largest in the city In certain specialized areas it was the largest These areas rettable brevity of hu it about

Edward spent a lot of time there, often at the top of a ladder, often surrounded by dust

He read every knoork on ar for and he found it in a note in the in of an otherwise very dull and inaccurate treatise on the ballistics of crossbows He copied it out, carefully

Edward spent a lot of ti history books as well The Assassins' Guild was an association of gentleard the whole of recorded history as a kind of stock book There were a great allery of kings and queens,[2] and Edward d'Eath came to know their aristocratic faces better than he did his own He spent his lunch hours there

It was said later that he cae But the secret of the history of Edward d'Eath was that he came under no outside influences at all, unless you count all those dead kings He just came under the influence of himself