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"It would help if I had one of their crossbows for a test firing"
"A few may have been lost thanks to those riders the FeLissaraths downed I’ll have Nilrasha hunt for theer bat as soon as he finished with Rayg
"Leather would be best, then," Rayg said, eyes rolling in thought "Perhaps if it were stiffened and reinforced ire Or wood flanges"
"One on’s underskin, at least froency, the Copper returned to the Lavadoe The entrance ell hidden by a thick, multicanopied forest, and he’d never seen it froround in his orientation hikes in the Drakwatch So he had to cast around a little before he found the right waterfall that led to it
He found Angalia and anotherthe door
"I coalia, but I cry joy at seeing you again," he said, figures of speech being just that "How do you like your change of scenery?"
"Warmer, your honor, but still terrible The air is so heavy and s I’ll be dead of a fever in a year; mark my words"
"It would take a tall tablet to alia," her co about the death of SiDrakkon on the way to Black Rock It was all anyone talked of, fro with soarden bath, dead of some sort of seizure
"Alone?" the Copper asked
He’d nah the news had escaped the Copper in his far-off Uphold Everyone took it to be a kind of joke
It was NoSohoth who explained it to hi for an audience SiMevolant had coons of the six hills
"I believe he thought of it as a sort of safeguard against assassination," NoSohoth said "With the Lavadome the way it is, a fo--a personality like SiMevolant atop Black Rock would guarantee chaos and destruction He figured we’d all be invoking the spirits every dawn and dusk, praying for his health"
"I’m told he was found in his bath, alone"
"Yes, by his arden bath How likely is that?"
"If SiMevolant said it happened, that’s how it happened"
"I’ll challenge him on that"
NoSohoth placed a sii on his "Don’t He’s been unusually wise about things since he rose to the rank of Tyr Let’s wait and see Thingsto Imfamnia at this audience"
"So soon?"
"These last years have been rather a ind, haven’t they? No one’s had a chance to right their wings and glide for a bit"
"I’"
"They’ll be handled With diplomacy"