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I had to grin to that "It’s an old pattern in my faht before we shoot up in height I’d thought I was finished growing, but I daresay I’ Perhaps by the ti, I’ll be the tallest uardedly "But I shall want to see you in my offices every week after classes resume Your recovery is unique, Cadet Burvelle, and I’d like to docuue Would youI can do to help bring an end to the disease is no more than ht ’s Cavalla Acade ti myself to open it I dreaded that it would contain some final vindictive act from Colonel Stiet, a bad report and a dishonorable dismissal Instead, when I opened it, it was si date for the Academy All cadets were to report to their dormitories and be in residence within five days He was reinstating ates to the Acadee in quarters I stared at it for some time, and I think that hen I finally realized that disaster had passed , and I was still a cadet The life I had always iht still await me

I went down to h my father’s military journals If he had ever questioned his fate, it was not confided to paper He wrote as a soldier should, iht with those people, he won, and the next day he and his troop rode on There was a lot of war and very little of life in his accounts I set my father’s journals back and randomly pulled down several of the older ones I found cra death I admired Epiny’s ability to read them Much of it was dull, and it surprisedpeople could beco, ht I heard soreetedthe journals I had pulled out "I’m sorry, sir I didn’t mean to wake you I couldn’t sleep and so I cah "Well, if those journals didn’t put you to sleep, nothing will"

"Yes, sir I tend to agree with you" Then we stood there, aardly

"I’ so well," my uncle said at last

"Yes, sir I plan on returning to the Acadee"

"I think you should ride your horse, Nevare There will be room for Sirlofty in the Acade auction of the Acade horses that Colonel Stiet had acquired" He actually smiled "He advertised the children’ I do not think he was impressed with Stiet’s choice of horseflesh"

"Nor I, sir" I found , to be able to ride my own horse in our formations, and yet it lifted hed softly and then said, "Sir this Sir that Aer your uncle, Nevare?"

I looked down "After the trouble I brought into your house, I was not sure how you felt about ht Epiny here, it escaped my notice, Nevare No I reas far too indulgent with her, and as a result, I have lost her I wonder if I’ll ever see her again It is a long way to Bitter-springs, and a hard life that awaits her when she arrives"

"I think she’ll be up to it, sir-Uncle Sefert" I found that I believed my oords

"I think she will, too Well Leaving tomorrow I knoe haven’t seen much of each other of late, but I’ll still miss you So I will still expect you to spend your leave days here, visiting"

"Will your lady wife be comfortable with that, Uncle Sefert?" I asked the question plainly, wishing to put it all out in the open

"My lady wife is not co these days, Nevare Let’s leave her out of it, shall we? Perhaps the next free day you get, you and Hotorn and I can go out and do soether I think I would like a bit of a holiday away from this city"