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"Clear the road!" the giant Cutter bellowed, a lion’s roar, and folk fell over thearron toward them Tents, blankets, and wards were snatched quickly away Leesha regretted the need, but the cart could not go off-road, and her children needed her

They galloped the horses when they finally cleared the press of refugees, thousands in nuhtfall It only took a mild look from Leesha to h the darkness with only Leesha’s light staff to guide thes at bay

Leesha could see the de in time to the music as they ambled slowly after Rojer, ," Wonda said She had her great bow strung and a warded arrow nocked and ready

"Ent natural," Gared agreed

They e on the outskirts of the Hollow by h for Leesha to store the h the darkness to the village proper

If things had seeees fro circles and covered wagons laden with supply, but they spilled over the edges of the forbidding on alreatward

Leesha turned to Gared and Wonda "Find the other Cutters and e within ten feet of the greatward needs to be s in the streets" The two nodded and moved off

She turned to Rojer "Find Sht; I don’t care who’s in bed"

Rojer nodded "I don’t have to ask where you’ll be, I suppose" He hopped from the cart and pulled up the hood of his warded cloak as she turned the cart for the hospit

Jardir looked up as Abban limped into the throne room "You see air gives th, Shar’Dama Ka"

Ashan snorted at Jardir’s side Jayan and Asoonize Abban in their father’s presence

"What do you know of the place called Deliverer’s Hollow?" Jardir asked, ignoring theed at Abban, taking him by the throat "Where did you hear that na the nie’dah!" Jardir shouted as Abban gasped and struggled weakly When the Daain, kicking him hard in the side Ashan was knocked away and hit the polished stone floor hard

"You would strikekhaffit?" Ashan asked, incredulous, when he had found his breath again

"I struck you for not attending aze over the rest of those in the room Aleverak and Maji, Jayan and Asouards Only Inevera, stretched out in her diaphanous robes on a bed of bright silk pillows beside his throne, escaped his gaze "I tire of this game, so I say now for all to hear, I will kill the next person to strike soiven thean to s "And you, khaffit," he growled "The next time you answer a question with a question, I will tear out your right eye and rily to his throne, sitting down hard "How did you learn of the one they call the Painted Man? The daation to pull his name from the chin Holy Men’s lips"

Abban shook his head "It’s all the chin talk about, Deliverer I doubt the interrogations discovered anything a few cruathered freely on the street"