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Hewith that The Mariners answer to Egan, not your Colonel"

Mariners? Another division within the Scarlet Guard, I suppose

"Are your friends going to keep hiding in the bushes?" he adds, angling a glance at , h to distractwatch battery, and Crance isn’t wearing a watch

"What about your friends?" I ask hi up from the forest floor

CalCrance, sizing him up The other rins, teeth glea such a fuss" He chuckles, taking one daring step forward

Neither of us flinches, despite his size We’re erous than he is

He lets out a lohistle, turning his gaze back to irl And where’s the Rabbit? I knew I heard him"

Rabbit?

Shade’s form appears behind Crance, one arm on his crutch, the other around Crance’s neck But he’s s "I told you not to callCrance’s shoulders

"If the shoe fits," Crance replies, shrugging out of Shade’s grasp Heas he does so But his grin fades a little at the sight of the crutch and bandages "You fall down a flight of stairs or soht, but darkness clouds his bright eyes

Shade waves off his concern and grips one broad shoulder "It’s good to see you, Crance And I guess I should introduce you to my sister--"

"No introductions necessary," Crance says, shoving an open handhim squeeze my own forearm in a hand twice the size of my own "Good to meet you, Mare Barrow, but I have to say, you look better on the wanted posters Didn’t know that was possible"

The others griht of my face plastered in every door andWe should’ve expected this