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They stepped through, and the door to the Library closed behind the shut behind theraded the warning posters in the Library room They were all red ink and Gothic font now, and, as her thoughts drifted, Irene wondered if they had been printed or hand-lettered

‘Sit her down here,’ Brada coo and fetch some help’

‘Just a moment,’ Irene interrupted She suspected that once Bradamant was out of here, she wouldn’t be back for quite a while, and there was so very important that she wanted to say to her first

‘You can barely stand,’ Bradamant said dismissively ‘You need help’

Kai looked round for a chair, found none, and carefully lowered her until she was sitting on the floor ‘Irene, Bradaht,’ he said in the patient tones that sympathetic men use to hysterical women ‘You’re hurt’

‘Shut up,’ Irene said, and watched his mouth drop open at her rudeness She was dizzy, and her hands felt as if she’d dipped theet this said before she lost the will to say it ‘Bradaed enerally broke quite a number of unwritten rules True or not?’

Brada, her posture was effortlessly elegant, and Irene felt even scruffier than usual, sprawled on the floor as she was For a moment Bradah’

‘And?’

Bradaize, but I hope you don’t expectof the sort,’ Irene said carefully ‘What I want’

‘Yes?’

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