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Frolances at Maraya’s twisted foot, face so iht in here, if you will, Dos the lamp from a hook over the bier

"Where can we anchor the rope?" He shrugs off a pack that looks to be stuffed with a rope and harness

"We’ll have to lower everyone down by hand," I say "How did you get up here from inside the earth?"

"There is an entire cos buried underneath your Saroese City of the Dead"

"I never read of that in the Archives!" Maraya retorts

"Why would the Saroese Archivists write of what they wanted no one to know, Doershis explanation "It is a hile argument that the Archives can only record what the chronicler writes down But then how do you know of this buried complex? You are not an Archivist"

"Who do you think was forced to bury the old coo with rubble and dirt, Doma? Who built the tombs afterward? Patrons? No, they called the work unclean and corrupting, which reallyand difficult Efeans build all that your father’s people will not touch Our s beneath the toround spaces"

"We can’t go down there!" A very like an ethereal sky spirit only half-tethered to earth and likely to float up into the heavens at any instant Her hair is tangled all loose over her shoulders The linen sheath gown hugs her shapely curves like it was tailored to her She looks so beautiful and frightening that Ro-emnu actually takes a step back as his eyes widen "Denya’s nurse says there arebeneath the too!"

My relief at seeing Aer "You are welcoy to coax you out!"

"Don’t leave ins to weep, not with the theatrical sobs she would often use to get her way but with exhausted hopeless tears

"I didn’t s into et you out of here because you desperately need a bath"

She wipes hs that are also sobs "I’ll never eat candied alain!"