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Froe, she also had an excellent view of the Old City in the distance In the past, she used to look back and see the castle rising high and proud over Sacor City Now it looked like no lass would allow her to see the details of the ruins, and perhaps that was for the best Smoky plurayish-brown haze across the view A dirty sky--she could never have iined it All was quiet here, except for crows that squawked and flew-hopped from brush and scrub
Luke reined Gallant up beside her "Grand view, isn’t it? Sometimes I try to picture what it looked like in the past when there was a castle up there A sha"
"It was," Karigan murmured Then hastily added, "I ave her a sidelong glance "It leaves a strong ihthosts of the old ones, the people who lived up there, were going to cos to me But I was just a boy then Sohosts, but I’ve never seen ’em" They sat in silence for a while, then Luke stood in his stirrups and shielded his eyes froazed into the distance "If I’ Professor said he ht join us out here"
Cade? She looked where Luke pointed and saw aa dirt track that bypassed the mounds It could certainly be Cade, but she wasn’t sure He turned off the track and guided the o down tofor an answer, he reined Gallant down the slope of the outcrop Karigan shrugged and followed
It turned out to be Cade Harlowe after all, and he took the cart into thea wheel He hopped off the cart and greeted therave," he said, "or is it Ta that Luke did not see about her secrets, she stopped just in time "Just call me Kari for now"
Cade gazed hard at her, and she guessed at what he was thinking--that it was not appropriate to call her by her first na like a boy was extre out here?" she asked, thinking this could not be a coincidence
"Officially? I have an is Not that the h by other archeologists"
"Unofficially?"
"Unofficially I aun"
This time it was Luke who frowned and shifted unco this?"
"Yes," Cade replied "We coet practice soan, "though Inspectors are more lenient with the Preferred families In any case, we shouldn’t be heard out here"
"Heard?"