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But Rojer laughed out loud "You don’t even see it!" he cried "An endless line of weapons and wards comes from your hut, the sick and injured cured with a wave of your hand All I can do is play my fiddle, and I can’t even save a life when I do You and the Painted Man have becofolk to dance"

"Don’t belittle the joy you and your apprentices have brought to a town fraught with hardship," Leesha said

Rojer shrugged "I do nothing a keg of ale can’t do on its own"

Leesha took his hands in hers "That’s ridiculous Youras Arlen’s orit is just proof of how special you are"

She laughed row, I’ll always have ht, and where Leesha and Rojer walked, far froreatward, the darkness was near complete Leesha walked with a tall staff, the end of which held a flask of cheht for them to make their way by The flask and staff were etched ards of unsight; corelings could see the light, but they could no more find the source than they could find the two of them in their warded cloaks

"Don’t see why he couldn’t ht not feel the cold, but I do"

"Sos are best said in private," Leesha said, "and he tends to draw a crowd"

The Painted Man aiting for theht Dancer, his enor and horns, nearly invisible in the darkness The Painted Man himself wore only a loincloth, his tattooed skin bare to the cold

"You’re late," the Painted Man said

"Had some problems at the hospit," Leesha said "An accident while ere charging glass Why aren’t you wearing your cloak?" She tried to make the question seem casual, but it hurt her that for all the hours she spent on it, Leesha had never seen hiarment apart from the one time she threw it across his shoulders to check the fit

"It’s into hide fros They want to come at me, let theht Dancer to a hitching post in the yard and went inside Leesha took aa kettle and hanging it over the blaze

"How are the fiddle wizards co?" the Painted Man asked Rojer

"More fiddle than wizard, I’m afraid," Rojer said "They’re not ready"

The Painted Man frowned "Cutter patrols would be stronger with a fiddler who can manipulate the demons’ emotions"

"I can patrol with them," Rojer said "I have my cloak to keep "

Rojer, blew out a breath, glancing at Leesha "I’ll do what I can"

"And the Hollow?" the Painted Man asked when Leesha joined the quickly," Leesha said "Already we have twice as many people as we had before the flux last year, and rowth, but not at this rate"

The Painted Man nodded "We can have the Cutters clear reatward"

"We need the lureed "We haven’t sent a shipment to Duke Rhinebeck in over a year"

"Had to rebuild the entire village," the Painted Man said