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‘Yet her sacrifice has stranded the T’lan Imass here, hasn’t it?’ Udinaas asked

‘Yes But Ulshun and his people are content’

‘Vi truh larpahal Ranag, bhed, tenag tollarpahal Kul havra thelar Kul’

‘This land is a path, ould call a road,’ Found said, frowning as he struggled to rate, back and forth They seem to come from nowhere, but they always come’

Because, like the T’lan Ihost memories

‘The road leads here?’ Feather Witch asked in halting traders’ tongue

‘Yes,’ Found said

‘And comes from where?’

‘Epal en Vol‘sav, thelan’

The boy sighed, crossed his arms in frustration ‘Ulshun says we are in an… overflow? Where the road comes from has bled out to claim the road itself And surround this place Beyond, there is… nothing Oblivion Unrealized’

‘So we are within a realm?’ Feather Witch asked ‘Which Hold claims this place?’

‘A evbrox‘l list Tev Starvald Demelain Tev’

‘Ulshun is pleased you understand Holds He is bright-gem-eye Pleased, and surprised He calls this Hold Starvald Demelain’

‘I do not know that naain, and in the words Udinaas sensed a list Then nize naed ‘T’iam, Kalse, Silannah, Ampelas, Okaros, Karosis, Sorrit, Atrahal, Eloth, Anthras, Kessobahn, Alkend, Karatallid, Korbas… Olar Eleint Draconean Dragons The Pure Dragons The place where the road coo Draconus, K’rul, Anomandaris, Osserc, Silchas Ruin, Scabandari, Sheltatha Lore, Sukul Ankhadu, and Menandore It was, he says, Menandore who saved me’ The boy’s eyes suddenly widened ‘She didn’t look like a dragon!’