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‘Ceda, have you heard froation? No Froe, all contact with them has been lost Blocked by Edur sorcery, of a sort we’ve not experienced before There isMuch’

‘I should leave now, Ceda, while there’s still daylight’

‘Agreed Then return here hat you have discovered’

‘Very well’

The track leading to the quarries cli fashion to a notch in the hillside The stands of coppiced trees on the flanks were sheathed in white dust Goats coughed in the shade

Bugg paused to wipe sweaty grit froons filled with stonecutters had passed him a short while earlier, and from the frustrated foreman came the unwelcoer, at least until the situation was resolved

A cavity had been inadvertently breached, within which a creature of so, long tied inside, their shrieks short-lived The hired necro reached the notch and stood looking down at the quarry pit with its geo land The mouth of the cavity was barely visible near an area that had seen recent work

Heto within twenty paces of the cave before he stopped

The air was suddenly bitter cold Frowning, Bugg stepped to one side and sat down on a block of liround to the left of the cave, reaching in a point towards the dark opening, the opposite end spreading ever wider in a swirl of fog The sound of ice crunching underfoot, then a figure appeared fro out froreen skin Long, streaked blonde hair hanging loose over the shoulders and down the back Light grey eyes, the pupils vertical slits Silver-capped tusks Fe a short skirt, her only clothing barring the leather-strappeda half-dozen scabbards in which stabbing knives resided

Her attention was on the cave She anchored her hands on her hips and visibly sighed

‘He’s not colanced over ‘Of course he isn’t, now that I’m here’

‘What kind of dery and insane, but a coward’