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She lowered herself into the seat in front ofon the table

"So I can come back now? I can come home?"

I shookburrowers are deep in the forest, Fern," Ash said, stepping through the doorway, closing it behind hi the lock "It is no safer for you there now, perhaps even erous"

She put a hand over her ample bosom "Basil, is he safe?"

It tookofhis name, as only someone you were close to would do "No, he’s not" I wouldn’t keep the truth from her If it were

"Then I o to hi her chair back with a screech that evoked so fro her "No, there is nothing you can do to help"

Her eyes filled with tears that slid down her face in perfectly straight streaks "Then you have to save hi"

"That’s why you just had to eat? Because you’re trying to save your father?" Ash sneered atso ave me a pause Of all the people I knew, he should understand the need to be at our best to face Cassava

"And if I fall flat onbecause I haven’t eaten in three days, what then?"

The sneer fell from his face and he nodded, his tone back to nor run ahead of us" I stared at him, the quick twist in his attitude eird at best, and

"Is shein your head now?"

His eyes lifted to e with a soft pink glow, the only sign I had that Cassava was riding hi his words and actions

I sed down the large lu in my throat Whatever hold she had on hier the Ash I could depend on and I had to treat him like the enemy He raised an eyebrow at et to your father"

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