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"No No poisons It’s just…" The proper words to describe it failed e

I watched the Commander’s face as he bit into one of the squares His eyes widened and his eyebrows arched in surprise His tongue dashed along his lips and teeth as he tried to suck all the rerabbed another piece

"It’s sweet Different But I don’t taste anything unbelievable about it," Valek said, wiping the brown flakes froe looks with the Commander Unlike Valek, he had an appetite for fine cuisine He recognized excellence when he tasted it

"I’ll bet that little rat won’t last an hour," Margg’s h the kitchen door I had been about to enter when I had heard her

"I’ll give fifty to one to anyone stupid enough to think the rat’ll last the day And one hundred to one to the sucker who thinks she won’t be caught" After Margg called the odds, the roo horror Margg couldn’t be talking aboutabout the exercise? It’d be all over the castle by toes that Yelena stays free all day," Rand’s voice boorew quiet

My e on es He had ree with Margg on this one

Margg’s laughter echoed on the tiled walls "You’ve been in the kitchen too long, Rand The heat’s cooked your brain toto like the little rat Better lock up your knives when she’s here or she h," Rand said "Dinner’s over Everyone out of ht Since I had promised Rand I would taste his cake, I looped back to the kitchen after everyone had gone Rand was sitting at one of the tables chopping nuts There was a slice of his raspberry-and-cream cake on the table

He pushed the plate to me I tasted it

"Much better The cake is incrediblyto the batter"

Rand was unusually quiet He didn’tto ask

He finished chopping the nuts After cleaning up, he said, "I better get soht Are you co?" I stalled I hated to ht of the festival Hated to let Brazell ruin the only fun I’d have Although, if Margg was going as well, I’d stay with inal decision