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"Yes, I thought it was peculiar, too," Luke was saying when Cade brought up the Inspectors at the gates "Word must have passed from checkpoint to checkpoint that a wine merchant from Mill City, named Mayforte, was headed for Gossham"

"But ould that on?" Cade asked

Luke shrugged and poured himself tea "I haven’t the faintest It could be a trap, as you proposed, but like you also said, why not just arrest us? This has been a dangerous endeavor froed letter of introduction from Mill City’s ery? We are done for"

"So what do we do?"

"I do not think there is ao and have a look around If he does not invite us, we find another way"

Later, after Luke retired for the night to his coan sat once li It was all or nothing, and Cade had agreed that if invited into the palace, they would use it for scouting purposes, no

She could not see thefull Thinking of the moon reminded her of the first phrase in the Captain’s riddle: The scything an felt iet invited into the palace," Karigan said, "I want toto do that fading thing?" There was an apprehensive edge to Cade’s voice

She nodded "First I need to check so else" She peeled back her jacket and revealed her Rider brooch To her, it looked the same as always, but could Cade still see it? "Is my brooch still there?" she asked hione What happened to it?"

She grinned "Oh, it’s there"

"Then why can’t I see it?"

She explained the spell that concealed it, and how long ago the brooches had been saved by being hidden in plain sight

"Remarkable," Cade said "So it’s the etherea of Gossha it further" She took the moonstone froht She extinguished it quickly