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"What about Ari and Janco?" I asked as we set up caan said

"How did Selene find me, then?"

"She received a tip frouise "We need to warn Ari and Janco not to return to town"

"We’re pretty close to their return route The horses will alert us when they’re close," Valek said

"Are we still going to rescue the Councilors?" Teegan asked

"Yes In fact, tonight would be ideal The garrison commander will send extra patrols into town to search for us, which arrison"

"Yeah, but there will be an said

"And they ht find Ari and Janco instead" I paced

"Don’t worry, love Those two kno to avoid patrols But you’re right As Janco would say, ‘There are toosettles down"

Valek spread his bedroll, even though it wasn’t full dark yet Although he tried to hide it, I recognized his fatigue Norraceful and fluid, his reat effort

I sat next to hi ic lesson today?" I asked hian answered, punize the she’d trapped me"

Which rean’s huet all thethe Firestorm--her words, not mine"

"Firestoruess that the Commander plans to attack around the time of the fire festival"

"It does But I don’t think they intend to kill the oing to be hit with some kind of substance"

"Do you knohat the substance does?" I asked, hoping we’d finally learn what exactly the Cartel was planning

"No, sorry I only had tian glanced at the forest

Both Valek and I reached for weapons

Teegan shook his head "It’s Ari and Janco Kiki’s leading theh, two men and four horses appeared fro, and their stiff dismounts indicated they’d spent too much time in the saddle

Janco pulled a leaf fro in a bed tonight"

"Look on the bright side--if we’d stayed in the tailor shop, you’d be sleeping in the garrison tonight," I said

He grunted "So I gathered"