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"Can I get you anything, Lord Arvil?" I asked politely

"Can you make a simple sandwich?"

"Of course" We walked back to the kitchen Arvil was served an ox-roast sandith all the tris Delvin and two other wizards ith Arvil received the same It made me wonder where the other five were I knew better than to ask

"You know, that seed is co on Kliiver," Arvil said casually as I put clean dishes away I didn’t even look up at his co to trap ht Lord Arvil," I said and walked toward h all ood memory and my only other pair of shoes weren’t quite in the same spot inside my closet They did suspect me I wondered if I should send ainst it He’d just tellunless they tried to kill ht then it made my head hurt

"Would you like breakfast? Have you eaten yet?" I asked Teeg when he showed up the next

"I wouldn’tin front of his and served them over toast points with sauce and shaved ha

"That was perfect," he sighed, handing the empty plate back to me The cabinetmakers had finished their job, so ere the only ones in the kitchen right then I wanted to tell hiht before so badly, and knew I couldn’t Teeg was loyal to Arvil, as paying hi

The dishwasher worked perfectly, I thanked Teeg for that fact, wrote out ht behind me He was only a few months older than I was--nearly twenty he’d said, and his nahts in his spare time as we rode the pub-trans to the market Neele o hands taller than I was, broad across the shoulders and narrow at the waist and hips I believed hiht eye that I was determined not to ask about He turned many a female head as we shopped for our needs and stopped to talk with tho seemed quite forward Neele had a date before we ever left the store

"That turned out well-- for you, Re" Neele was grinning atago," I s up the steps of the pub-trans "And I prefer toof me, but I’ll find ht I was e a date I let hi that

"This soup is exceptional" Arvil was asking for otten to the otten fresh shrih they were small These were perfect for soup or salads The main course was redfish that I’d only seen imported from three Alliance worlds Itbusiness on the black market with some of those worlds I knehich ones supplied the redfish, so I resolved to send that inforht yell that it was uniotten us before

"We have a little errand to run after dinner," Arvil was dipping up the last of his second helping of soup "Delvin here tells ood shot, Re"

"He doesn’tNeele to stare ata problem with the same enemy we had on Mandil," Delvin went on "Our fields are under attack, so we’re taking you with us to see if we can’t rid ourselves of that little problem"

At that moment, I wanted to shout at Delvin Screa Arvil San Gerxon things like that? He was deteret o out with my wizards," Arvil smiled as I set a plate of fish in front of hiood shot, I had to see this for ," I said, placing other plates around the ot sorinned "Boots, too"

"Then I’ll go," I said

Cruel-mouth folded us I had no idea orld we stood upon e landed, but it held the scent of plowed fields I couldn’t see trees anywhere near and sprinklers were sending jets of water far out into the fields in a circular pattern In the ht, thethis way, Master Arvil," one of three men approached us e landed, and noed respectfully to Arvil

"You have the ranos rifles ready?"

"Several for each of you"