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Everyone stood still for atherabbed his aro with the rest

Only Leesha stood behind

"You have no place here, daughter of Erny," Inevera said "You are not faroom or brides"

"Oh, but I am, Damajah," Leesha said "If hter, may take the place of his sister" She s her voice "The Evejah is quite clear on the ly

Inevera scowled and opened her mouth, but Rojer cut her off "I want her to stay" The words ended in a squeak as Inevera turned to him, but then a wide smile licked across her face, and she bowed "As you wish"

"Lock the doors, Leesha," Elona ordered "Can’t have Gared stuhed, and the sight of their joined a Elona see

Leesha seehter or the casual way Elona ordered her around, he couldn’t be sure She turned and strode to the huge gilded doors, throwing the bar with a sound thathiers, and the two girls straightened their backs, though they remained on their knees on the floor

"A a hand on her shoulder "Healer, , but she has made her dice and passed every test"

She looked at Leesha and smiled "Perhaps she can treat those cuts on your face," she said, indicating the red lines on Leesha’s cheek from where Inevera had scratched her

Leesha sreat deal, Da you? I could prepare a rinse, if you wish"

Rojer looked back to Inevera, expecting a vicious response, but Inevera siht sons and three daughters The women of my family are similarly fertile, and the bones say Amanvah will breed true"

"Bones?" Leesha asked

Inevera scowled "That is no concern of yours, chin," she snapped

In an instant her sive you sons, son of Jessum Sikvah’s mother was similarly fertile She, too, will breed well for you"

"Yes, but can they sing?" Rojer asked, hoping to deflect the disco It was the punch line of a favorite bawdy joke of Arrick’s, a tale of a man who could never be satisfied no matter how many women he bedded

But Inevera only sers and barking an order to the girls in Krasian

A, her voice rich and pure Rojer didn’t understand the words, and had never had a knack for singing hireatest singer of his tie it

Areat wind, stealing the footing fro hi itself around the other as Sikvah smoothly joined in They found harmony instantly, and Rojer was stunned Woiers, their careers would be assured

Rojer said nothing, standing in silence while the to with a wave, he felt like a puppet with its strings suddenly cut