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Mae gave hioddess like that and didn’t ods around the world," he shot back "I didn’t knohich one it was Death and battle are pervasive the Callista "She’s tied to other things too"

"Silver and ested Mae wryly "And crows?"

"Yes," he admitted "And cows too, weirdly Sooddess and would’ve possessed other attributes through her different aspects"

"Not in the beliefs of her recent followers," said Callista "They were--are--focused on her darker parts They prefer power over enlightenment"

"How do you know so much?" asked Mae suspiciously

"Because Aoddess, and I ht Aic"

"She’s both" Iaze on Justin "You have to stop the Morrigan Her people will kill again"

"I know they will! What do you think I’ to do here?" he asked "If you know so much, where are they?"

Callista looked sheepish "I don’t know On a Celtic grant probably"

"Very helpful," he gru that made plebeians scornful of patricians was that at tienetic profile for an ethnic group So Often, castes went by phenotype, which could s messy when a nationality could have any number of features The Celtic castes were all over the place on their true ancestral appearances Soht-haired, fair-skinned presence while others insisted the Celtic people hadIrish castes--the Erinians and Hibernians--were particularly dysfunctional Half the time, the traits a caste selected for seemed arbitrary The Welsh caste had split the difference in accepted Celtic traits, and most citizens had pale skin, black hair, and dark blue or brown eyes There were also two "meta" Celtic castes, which embraced multiple nationalities, ions and Finland

The bottorants this cult could be hiding in Picking up his ego, Justin told it to bring up any servitor records of the Morrigan It pulled up an investigation and subsequent license denial froo--which ineered castals had stopped being created Their last location had been a plebeian city, which only cos

"They didn’t stay shut down," Callista told hih hints now and then to know they’re still practicing"

"Yeah, it’s been a little ht-haired caste, based on the description of the guy who visited the victi on," he told Callista He issued a series of coes, one of which was Callista’s face The other half displayed a ion of the country Red dots in each grant reen dots displayed the other living eights and nines in their respective castes Yellow dots outside the borders indicated the plebeian deaths

"You’ve got a lot more plebeians there than patricians," Callista observed "Even counting the living ones"

"Because we’re only looking at these five grants," he said "The Morrigan’s people probably worked on other castes They just haven’t had any deaths to catch our attention I bet there’s a perfect patrician for every plebeian there And statistically, you’d expect some plebeian deaths to occur for nonsacrificial reasons"

Mae suddenly stood up "There’s a pattern"

"There’s always a pattern"

"No, look" She pointed "All the plebeian and patrician deaths rant Is that the Pan-Celts?"

"Yes," said Justin, exciteht haired, just like our guy"

"A lot of area for a group to hide out," said Callista with obvious dismay

Justin shook his head in bitter a the tellsrid of a threat to your group"

"She should be," said Mae unexpectedly "Because they want to kill her"

Both Justin and Callista stared "How do you know that?" he asked