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And so she waited for the house to quiet down, her eyelids drooping She kept shaking herself awake, and eventually crept to her door and listened as the household settled down for the night This time when she slipped out, shawl once more draped across her shoulders and bonewood in hand, she had a much better feel for the layout of the house, and in the diht, picked her way down to the library without hesitation

She found the professor sitting in the glow of the low lalanced up as she entered

"Ah, good evening," he said in a quiet voice "My apologies forsupper, but I had some details to attend to at the university Are you ready?"

Karigan nodded, and he closed the book He extinguished the laon statuette on its shelf a twist of its tail, opening the secret passage Neither of theh the second door and on the spiral stairs winding their way doard

"Er, you have nothing else to wear down here than your nightgown and slippers?"

"The dresses you had an said, "but too fine Mirriaown is bad enough"

"I see," the professor said "I had not thought of that She is, you see, accustomed to dirt on me" His chuckle was muffled in the close confines of the shaft that contained the stairway The taper he carried, bobbing up and down, cast weird shadows on the rough stone walls

"Which brings up soan said "Mirria Raven at the stables, and she especially won’t toleratehim"

"Do you know that Arhys now de about that," Karigan replied, recalling the ruckus outside the bathing room earlier in the day "I need to spend time with Raven, even if it causes trouble I hate to draw attention, but I will if I have to"

"Yes, yes, I do not doubt it I have gathered there is a certain willfulness of character about you And yet it does not corasp that Green Riders were great horsemen and that it in part caed her shawl ainst the chill of the stairwell She still could not think of her friends in the past tense They re on their duties as Riders To her it was more like they were somewhere rather than somewhen

"Let me think on it, my dear, and see if we can’t come up with a solution that won’t tax poor Mirriam’s propriety or draw unnecessary attention to you or an said She’d have to be satisfied with his response for now but promised herself that even if he found no acceptable solution, she’d find one of her own And, she thought, if the professor gave her enough inforht about what had happened to Sacor City, she could work harder at finding a way to deliver that infor in with this world would eventually becole" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>