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The girl lifted a small stick wrapped ently pushing his jaw closed Jardir understood, and bit down

"Dal’Sharu ather instru cleansed the wound, and a flare of agony as she wrenched his arm to set the bone Jardir bit hard into the stick, and tried to do as the girl said, opening hih he did not fully understand For a moment the pain see through a doorway, it beca he are of but not part of His jaw unclenched, and the stick fell away unneeded

As Jardir relaxed into the pain, he turned to watch the da prayers to Everaround herbs into a paste she slathered on the wound, wrapping it in clean cloth soaked in a thick white th, she lifted him from the table and set him on a hard cot She put a flask to his lips and Jardir drank, i turned away, but the girl lingered abroken," she whispered, giving coirl sitting beside his cot She pressed a damp cloth to his forehead It was the coolness that had woken hiht his irl

"The young warrior awakens," she said, s at him

"You speak," Jardir said through parched lips His ars had hardened while he slept

"Airl asked

"To me, I mean," Jardir said "I am only nie’Sharum" And not yet worthy of you by half, he added silently

The girl nodded "And I a I will earn my veil soon, but I do not wear it yet, and thus may speak to who bowl of porridge to his lips "I expect they are starving you in the Kaji’sharaj Eat It will help the da’s spells to heal you"

Jardir sed the hot food quickly "What is your nairl smiled as she wiped his h for his bido"

"I’hed "Boldness is no cause for sorrow Everam has no love for the timid My name is Inevera"

"As Evera in Krasia Inevera nodded

"Ahirl nodded as if this were grave news, but there was a andtold Qeran the next day, "but he ularly, and if further hars, I will hold you to account"

The drill coo to the front of the line None of the other boys, even Hasik, dared question this, but Jardir could feel their looks of resent for his meals, even with his arm in a cast, rather than weather those stares, but the daly, the drillruel down his throat

"Will you be all right?" Abban asked as they ate in their custo broken"