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Swearing, the Daru flung hi on stone, to collide with the first half-ic flowed too wide to escape, swirling and spinning its inky power to fill the street like a flash-flood

Lying on his side, back jaainst the step, Coll could only throw up a foreared down

And vanished Blinking, Coll grunted, dropped his arure step directly over him from behind -- from the direction of the teht flanking longswords, one of the past as the massive warrior reached the cobbles of the street

The attacker perched on the wagon spoke in a high voice, the tone bemused ’You should be dead I can feel the coldness of you I can sense the fist of Hood, coiled there in your lifeless chest He’s kept you here Wandering’

Huh, this new arrival doesn’t look very dead to on, seeking Murillio’s ,’ the warrior rasped, still striding towards the figure ’ Hunting ’

’Us? But we’ve taken so few froht of Death, has your ht the unconscious hag -- she lies in the bed of this wagon Hovering at the very edge of the chasm Surely your master-’

’Not for you,’ the warrior ruathered kin And the beasts whose hearts are empty All await Not for you’

The air in the alley had grown bitter cold

’Oh, all right, then,’ the attacker sighed ’What of this driver and his guard? I could use so many pieces of them-’

’No Korbal Broach, hear the words of uard your compound You and the one naht’

’We’d planned on a ht, yes? High House Death stirs to wakefulness, I now sense Aarht, or I shall descend upon you, and claim your souls Do you realize the fate my master has in store for you two?’

Coll watched as the bald, pallid-faced on raised his ariggled ’You will have to catch us first!’ The blurring became a sled croing sharply as it rose upward, wings thru, and ed by darkness

The warrior walked to where Murillio lay

Coll drew a deep breath, seeking to slow his ha heart, then climbed painfully to his feet ’My thanks to you, sir,’ he grunted, wincing at what in the ht shoulder and hip ’Does my companion live?’

The warrior, who Coll noas wearing the re to face him ’He lives Korbal Broach requires that they be alive … for his work At least at first You are to co, that sorcerer assu But it wasn’t, was it?’