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The co him of sleep, and each day was filled with the demands of supply, details on the planned deployers delivering reports and orders then hurrying off with the sain the journey across half a continent, if only to answer the thousand questions of what awaited them

Quick Ben sat in silence beside Whiskeyjack, thenervously beneath him

’Your mount’s picked up on your state of mind, Quick,’ the commander said

’Aye’

’You’re wondering when I’ll cut you loose so you can chase after and catch up with Paran and the Bridgeburners, and put soet as far away from Silverfox as you can’

Quick Ben started at this last observation, then he sighed ’Aye I ied to hide my unease -- at least not frorown five years or more since we arrived, Whiskeyjack -- I looked in on the Mhybe thiswhat she can, as are the Rhivi shoulderwomen, but Silverfox has taken from that old woman al her alive The thought of converging T’lan I me happy, either And then there’s Anomander Rake -- he wants to know all about me-’

’Has he atte?’

’Not yet, but why teer,’ Whiskeyjack said ’Ride with e -- we’ll keep our distance from the Son of Darkness, as best we can Have those mercenaries in Capustan taken your bait yet?’

’They’re playing with it’

’We’ll wait another week, then If nothing, then off you go’

’Yes, sir’

’Now,’ Whiskeyjack drawled, ’why don’t you tell , Quick Ben?’

The e blinked innocently ’Sir?’

’You’ve visited every tee You’ve spent a small fortune on readers of the Deck Hood, I’ve had a report of you sacrificing a goat at dawn atop a barrohat in the Abyss were you up to with that, Quick?’

’All right,’ thestinks of desperation I adot carried away’