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"A?" the professor asked

Cade staggered to his feet and swayed Karigan leaped up to steady hi her lips before she could prevent it The professor looked from one to the other

"I’d rather the two of you be circu of one another," he said at last "Makes it hard to explain away such things" Giving Karigan a long, appraising look, he added, "You look stunning in black,had he been watching? Karigan wondered And he was referring to her sork, right?

He strode off toward the library, and Cade and Karigan nearly tripped over the whatever it was you were doing on rave--I hurt her ribs," Cade said

"Cade banged his head," Karigan said

The professor turned on his heel to face the injuries?"

"Miss Goodgrave won’t allow me to see her ribs"

The professor crooked a bushy eyebrow

Cade blushed and started to staan interrupted "We both are Really I think"

"Hmm" With that, the professor continued on his way to the library

Cade glanced at her, but Karigan could not an and Cade hovered just a little too anxiously over the professor’s desk as he searched through various drawers He paused to give the into a draith an, "Ah ha!" He withdrew a gold sphere with a delicate chain dangling from it It was etched with decorative whorls and ornate script Initials, perhaps? It fit neatly into the palan asked

"This, my dear, is a very rare item A chronosphere"

"A what?"

"A timepiece," Cade supplied "Shows time down to the reat accuracy"

"To the second?" she asked "In that little thing?" She thought of her world’s few huge water clocks, used to synchronize the bells in the chapels of the , of course: candles, sundials, hour glasses, and on the coast, posts that eneral population listened for the bells if they needed to know the hour, just as they did here