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When they reached Jax’s house, they found Mirriaan curled up on the bed asleep, but this time attired in her Tam Ryder outfit, which had been retrieved fro our faith in this one who always sleeps?" Jax said, and not for the first tiend she is"

"Not her fault," Cade replied

"No, it is not," Mirriae is correct, the morphia should have laid her out cold for a solid three days, but perhaps she didn’t get as ht, or it lost soot her to stay awake and coherent long enough to tell her what’s happened and help her change clothes, but I’ht out of her again"

"Are you still planning to leave this afternoon?" Jax asked Cade "With your sleepy girl, there?"

Cade nodded "Just as soon as Luke arrives"

Jax shook his head and shuffled to the little kitchen area, reaching for a jar of tea on a shelf "So, it’s all going to happen At least our end of it"

For better or worse, Cade thought For better or worse

MILL CITY FAREWELL

Karigan wished people would leave her be and stop patting her face and shaking her She flung her hand out blindly, hit someone, and was rewarded with an, "Ow!"

She cracked her eyes open, and there was Cade, all three of hi his face Da "Sorry," she ain

"Oh, no you don’t," Cade said

He shook her again and made her sit up She sian"

His sharp voice jabbed at her He cradled her face in his hands and forced her to look up at him Hims "Do you remember what Mirriam told you today?"

Somewhere over Cade’s shoulder she perceived the housekeeper standing nearby Yes She had spoken with Mirriae stories of tunnels and fire and the river "I think it was a dream," she murmured

"No," Cade said "It was not"

"None of it?" There had been soish her brain had beco

"None of it," Cade replied firmly

The professor had died, she reone, isn’t he"