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"You don’t know anything about being Efean, do you?" His dark gaze mocks me "What I can’t believe is that you just discarded hiave birth to hie what you were not here to experience" I a I did in my panic Instead I kiss the baby’s cold forehead as a blessing Watching me, Ro-emnu’s sneer softens

A bed-curtain sliced up ainst my body Unlike my new sister he feels e since fled Father never had any luck with his sons

"Where is the oracle?" I ask

"Why do you care?" His sympathetic expression fades into his usual derision

A thump interrupts us Kalliarkos trots in with two larins with a cocky confidence that looks good on hione on around the hill We did it, Jes! Everyone is out!"

I can’t allow myself to relax Disaster lurks around every corner

We tidy up the tomb, then wrestle the heavy stone lid almost all the way back over the bier

"Tomb robbers built this so they could sneak in," I say after we set the coffin on top

Ro-euild built it, Doma Your father’s people are the tomb robbers, not mine"

Kalliarkos sets a hand casually on Ro-eue about history"

Instead of scorching him with a retort, Ro-eht, Kal We can argue later"