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Longbow shrugged "Leave the gold with hian blinked "Well, I’ll have to think about that just a bit," he said dubiously

"Don’t you trust your cousin, Hook-Big?" Eleria, still nestled on Longbow’s lap, asked "It’s not like the gold really , does it? You sa much of it there is in the Beloved’s cave, didn’t you?"

"It’s so to need that gold a lotto show any new ship cap’n who old really is, is bait, and Torl’s the one who’ll be fishing after we leave"

"It just seeainst ," Eleria told him "You worry too much" Then she yawned "I’ht with everybody, I think I’ll take a little nap And even if it’s not all right, I’ll do it anyway" Then she snuggled down in Longbow’s arms and promptly fell asleep

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Veltan’s thunderbolt enjoyed herself enorh theto the south of the Land of Dhrall She see out and the huge frag each time she shattered an ice s, but she was having so much fun that he didn’t have the heart to rein her in, so he leaned back and let her play

Her first pass at Aracia’s arbitrary zone of ice left a path of slush a half mile wide Her next pass doubled the width of the path, and the steah, Veltan!" Mother Sea said sharply

"She’s not really hurting anything, Mother"

"Oh, yes she is The water’s starting to boil, and it’s killing all the fish Make her stop"

"Yes, Mother," he replied obediently "Could you perhaps push the slush aside, though? Ice seeites, for soin with, and if they start being overly cautious, it could be midsummer before they reach the coast of Dhrall"

"I’ll take care of it, Veltan, and I’ll add a little current behind the"