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"Having to keep her own coh," he said

Little ieance, too, which only , beautiful eyes, but she kne to nurse a grudge She deh, who sounded like such a rancid little weenie, until Zuzana persuaded her that a shing--of which they had dozens, and which were far too modest to be of any real heroic value to Karou--could still wreak a satisfying e

She’d told her about Karou’s most excellent torhter describing the sight of his nude Adonis body doing a spastic itch-dance on the e--Svetla’s ever-grow eyebrows--that had been Eliza’s inspiration

She’d kissed the shing like lucky dice before pronouncing, "I wish that the hair just between Morgan Toth’s nose and upper lip will grow in at a rate of an inch per hour, beginning now, ending oneif your wish exceeded thevanished with her last syllable

"You do realize," Mik had said, "that you just described a Hitler athered that she did The revenge was not complete, however, if the subject didn’t knoas responsible, so she’d sent, to his work e-er raised to her lip like a mustache Subject line: Enjoy

"We have to do that to Esther, too," Zuzana had declared "Right now"

So they did, and began their journey in the best of all possible ways: i, in solidarity, the bewildered horror of their eneear and supplies, a long drive, a long hike--in the snow; damn, it inter in the Southern Heh to the portal to conteht They almost did it, too, but it had become a matter of honor by this point, to preserve them, so Mik said, "Let’s just see what’s on the other side before we decide Eliza can carry us"

She did, and that was how they found out what no one in all of Eretz knew:

Where storuessed:

They liked music

And it was official: Mik’s three fairy-tale tasks were acco a hole in his pocket? The one that had see marble bathroom?

It happened to look just perfect on stor beneath the sea creatures that were not in any hales He couldn’t go down on one knee without risk of falling off, but that was entirely okay, under the circumstances "Will you lad to see you," Zuzana cried now, crowing at the sight of Liraz and Ziri Ziri! Not the White Wolf, but Ziri! Oh That meant he must have… But it was okay, wasn’t it, because here he was in Kirin forain, and he looked pretty nearly exactly the sa broadly, so very handso broadly, too, and beautiful, laughing in unbridled ahs Liraz

That see stor as that

"Can you tell the and exclaiun to subside, "that we can’t find the caves?"

Eliza spoke Seraphic, which was handy, but also u a wish to acquire an Eretz language herself It would have been Chih, because come on

"We’ll just have to learn that, too," Mik had said with a sigh that didn’t fool her for a second "Resurrection and invisibility and fighting and now non-hues, too? What is this, school?"

But Eliza wasn’t translating, and Zuzana realized she was staring at Ziri agog Oh! Right His body She’d seen his body at the pit That was going to take so "It’s him," Zuzana confiriven--to Liraz, who in turn translated to Ziri in Chi things like where they’d come from and whether the stormhunter had a name, and when Zuzana spotted the crescent, she realized a flaw in her grand vision of sweeping in and bowling everyone over with abeats

The storh the crescent Well, damn

She had to put a halt to small talk and make herself understood "We need an audience This needs to be witnessed, and spoken of far and wide Sung I want songs to be written about this Do you et everyone? And Karou?"

At which point Ziri and Liraz both got all bashful and weird, and Mik suggested, delicately, that perhaps Karou and Akiva were… busy

Collision of eht that at last Karou and Akiva were "busy"! And injustice, that it should coincide with her own ht?" she begged They were coasting in circles now, forestalling the moment they would have to disembark and enter the caves on foot

"No," spake Mik, voice of sanity

"But--"

"No"

"Fine But I want someone to see us"

Everyone saw them Liraz went to fetch theratifying gasps and shouts Zuzana heard Virko’s affectionate bellow of "Neek-neek!" and then felt, finally, that it was okay to bring this ride to an end

They brought the huge creature as close as they could to the rock face and ju its vast neck first in thanks and farewell They supposed it would go now and leave the it"), and they paused to watch, wistful, as it rose higher and higher until it was just a shape cut fro toward the gathered chi There was a pall over their manner, and… Karou was there Not busy Why not? And as she standing way back there? And where was Akiva?