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"Coh for one day Lord Hrodik promises to entertain us with the best wine in Saony"

"That’s not the worst thirst I’ht thrown off by the torch and surveyed the gloom With his back to her, Anna could not see his expression "I heard it told that n of them" He stood there for a while in silence The torch snapped and popped Smoke tickled her nose She sniffed hard and sneezed

"Come," said the prince, as if the sound spurred him out of his reverie He took the torch froht

"Why did you go down into the crypt?" Suzanne deotten hoh war cider to warirl, left behind to tend to the house, served the a drink herself frootten hurt"

Anna said nothing

Suzanne sipped at her cider but could not leave the question alone

"What did he say to you?" Her fingers asked another question, playing self-consciously with her hair She glanced at Raihtful concern and a flicker of distress in his expression "Why did you follow the prince down into the crypt?"

Anna couldn’t answer, not even with such signs as she had learned to communicate with She couldn’t answer because she didn’t know

There were so many mysteries that humankind simply could not comprehend

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TO his surprise, Zacharias had come to admire the prince in the months they had journeyed eastward frolant was frank, fair, honest, and a resolute leader, and he never asked anyone to do anything he wasn’t willing to do hily to follow along in a noble lord’s retinue," Zacharias said to Heribert as they shared a platter in the great hall of theapprentice poet ed Herodia of Jeshuvi and the blessed Daisan in which the future saint had prophesied that the young Daisan would bring light to a benighted world

"In truth, I never thought I would sit down to eat with a colant sat at the high table, drinking heavily and speaking little as young Lord Hrodik boasted about a recent boar hunt in which he’d broken his nose