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"Harl Tanner!" Tender Harral called "A moment of your ti with Cobie Fisher in tow Cobie’s eyes were firmly on his feet

"Oh, what now?" Harl ht," Tender Harral said

"Oh, did he?" Harl said "Did he tell you I caught hihter in sinful embrace underto say now Don’t you, Cobie?"

Cobie nodded, co his boots "I’m sorry for what I done Din’t mean to shame no one, and I intend to make an honest woman of Renna, if you’ll allow it"

"The Core I will!" Harl barked, and Cobie paled and took a step back

"Now, Harl, wait just a minute," Tender Harral said

"No, you wait, Tender!" Harl said "This boy disrespected hter, and the sanctity of my wards, and you want me to take him as a son, just like that? I’d sooner let Renna ht to be ’uns of her own," Harral said

"That don’t ot to hand her to some drunken wastrel just cuz he bent her over a hay bale," Harl said He grabbed Renna and dragged her toward the cart Renna looked longingly at Cobie as they rode off

CHAPTER 14

A TRIP TO THE OUTHOUSE

333 AR SPRING

RENNA CAST A WISTFUL eye back up the road as the farirl," Harl said "Yer thinkin’ of bein’ like yer ingrate sister and runnin’ off t’be with that boy"

Renna said nothing, but she felt her cheeks burn, and that was dah

"Well, you think twice about it," Harl said "I won’t let you shame our family like Lainie did, runnin’ off with a ht before Whole town still talks of it, and they all cast a dark eye on old Harl for raising such a corespahore

"Yer on your way to getting the sairlie I’d rather scar the wards than go through that again You even think about runnin’, and you’ll have yerself a trip to the outhouse, even if I have to go all the way to Southwatch to collect you"

Renna glanced at the tiny, ramshackle structure in the yard, and her blood went cold Her father had never put her in there, but he had done it to Ilain a few times, and to Beni once She remembered their screams vividly