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Karigan did not pause but dashed past Lhean as studying the moondial In the captain’s riddle, she was to seek the scything moon She hoped Lhean knehich of the crescents was the scything moon She halted at the display case that held her saber She broke the glass and lifted out the weapon that was as familiar to her as an old, broken-in pair of boots She swept the blade through the air, joyful to have an old friend in hand once again

A screech and crash, and shouting at the ht her back to the present Cade was already trying to push a display case beneath the arch, but the span was too wide--they’d never be able to block it adequately

"Lhean?" she asked anxiously

"It is a puzzle," he said, his voice and deaze followed the phases of the moon laid out on the floor "I cannot read what pieces of ti been enthyne disrupted--"

A sense of discord rippled across Karigan’s flesh, raising the hairs on her ar across her mortal soul

"Lhean?"

"Yes, I felt it" He was now kneeling by theover one of the crescent e sensation, as well as by the commotion at theits--herself"

"Youto be on us any minute"

"I know" He remained impossibly serene

Karigan trotted to where Cade was ed worried s to find our way out?" Cade asked

Karigan wished she could be as callanced back at Lhean, kneeling on the floor Beside hi back at her The residue of dream came back to her, of when she was last in this rooift--the ice-glazed lazed host of Yates faded away

"Do you know it?"