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‘I don’t think he was still around when the flood broke lose,’ Padan said

‘What happened to hiot et’

‘Et?’

‘Eaten,’ Padan explained ‘He and that fat friend of his were trying to run on down the slope to gather up buckets-full of that pretty but worthless sand out there, but they got all tangled up in a spider web along the way - and the spider most likely had the for help’

Rabbit scratched his chin ‘That sounds about right tolike that, I suppose I’d say that they’d earned so more than an arrow in the forehead or a sword in the belly’

‘Oo seemed to approve,’ Keselo added

‘This is all over and done with,’ my sister Aracia said tartly ‘I think it’s ti we should consider is just where the Vlagh will strike next, and startpreparations’

‘Don’t we have to wait until one of the children has one of those dreah will strike next until we have a drea, little sister,’ Aracia replied ‘Your Domain, and now Veltan’s as well, are both perh only has two options now - Dahlaine’s Dos considerably, so I think we should prepare for both possibilities’

At that point Aracia’s hired warrior queen Trenicia stepped forward ‘Ekial and I have discussed this at soree that the presence of Narasan and Sorgan could be very useful when our enemies attack the North and the East They’ve had much experience with thosemistakes Then too, if their arh warriors to eliminate the creatures peran asked

‘As long as we get paid, I don’t see any proble out,’ sister Zelana told them with a faint smile

Then the door opened, and the beautiful wife of Veltan’s friend Oo came out onto the balcony ‘Dinner’s ready,’ she announced in that vibrant voice of hers

Then so It had been the appearance of Ara that had stirred Jalkan to the point that he’d said things that nobody in his right mind would have said, and those remarks had moved Narasan to the revocation of Jalkan’s coite ships in the harbor Then, when Jalkan had escaped, he’d gone off to the south and had returned with the five church arh It was remotely possible that there had been no connection between those various events, but--

I stared at the beautiful lady in awe Could it possibly be that Ara was our Unknown Friend? If she was, her poent so far beyond mine or my brother’s or sisters’ that I couldn’t even coht be capable of

Then her voice spoke to me in the silence of my mind ‘Not now, child,’ she said ‘We can talk about this some other time’