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’Rake The Tiste Andii Left their possessions Everything’

’Why would they do that? They are to settle in Black Coral, aren’t they? The city’s been stripped clean …’

Quick Ben shrugged ’Tiste Andii,’ he said, in a tone that silently added: we’ll never know

A vague portal took shape before therunted ’You’ve certainly a particular style with these things, Captain’

Yes, the style of aard ignorance ’Step through, Wizard’

He watched Quick Ben vanish within the portal Then Paran turned, one last tiht was fast diht eburners, I wish I could have done better by you Especially at the end At the very least, I could have died with you

All right, it’s probably far too late But I bless you, one and all

With that, he turned back, stepped through the portal

In the silent cha, then finally vanishing

But a ne had co to dance with the black web on the sarcophagi

A dance of e of bone clattered its way down the trader road, Eht backs of the oxen

Gruntle, halfway across the road, stopped, waited

The e He thumped one fist on the wall behind hi like a war drum

A door opened and Bauchelain climbed out, followed by Korbal Broach