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A braying laugh, like a ca out behind hi his knee

"Abban is more camel than cat!" Jurim cried

Jardir snarled and clenched a fist, but before he could rise, Drill is a joke?" he derabbed him by his bido and hurled him down after Abban He screamed as he fell the twenty feet and struck hard, then lay unai’sharak is no joke," he said "Better you all die here than shaht" The boys took a step back, nodding

Qeran turned to Jardir "Run now and infor the"

"It would be faster if we fetched theht depend on those precious minutes

"Only men are allowed in the Maze, nie’Sharum," Qeran said "Be off before the dal’Sharued as close as he dared when the daruel that evening, straining to hear her quiet words

"Juri within, but he will recover," she said, speaking as if she were discussing nothing nificant than the color of sand Her veils hid all expression "The other, Abban, had his legs broken in ain, but he ht?" Qeran asked

"It is too soon to tell," the da said

"If that is the case, you should kill him now," Qeran said "Better dead than khaffit"

The daer at him, and the drilloes on in the da pavilion, dal’Sharum," she hissed

Immediately the drillmaster laced his hands as if in prayer and bowed so deeply that his beard nearly touched the ground

"I beg the daiveness," he said "Inodded "Of course you did not "You are a dal’Sharues to your own in the afterlife, sitting a honorssaid, "a reminder of your place will serve you well Ask Daai tail should do"

Jardir gasped The alagai tail was the most painful of whips--three strips of leather braided withis forgiving," Qeran said, still bent low Jardir fled before either one could catch sight of hiht have heard

"You shouldn’t be here," Abban hissed as Jardir ducked under the flap of the daht!"

"I just wanted to see that you ell," Jardir said It was true enough, but his eyes scanned the tent carefully, hoping against hope that he irl since the day Jardir broke his arotten her beauty

Abban looked to his shattered legs, bound tight in hardening casts "I don’t know that I will ever be well again, er when they are broken You will be back on the walls in no tihed

Jardir bit his lip "I failed you I promised to catch you if you should fall I swore it by Everaht"