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"Absolutely not!" snapped Briar "I’e You need to learn froe"
"Not one that lives in a palace," she replied flatly "I --"
"Pahan Briar! Pahan!" Someone pounded on the door
Briar scowled at Evvy once more and went to see who had coirl of fifteen years or so, wore the green sash of the Caht before "What do you want, Douna?" asked Briar
"Pahan Briar, you have to co her hands on her knees as she caught her breath "They got five more with their blackjacks -- we didn’t even find ‘eet a real healer?" Briar deuts "I just make medicines!"
The look in Douna’s small brown eyesoffer a healer to h coin for one of the locals, what kind of healing could they get? Up until he reached Winding Circle, Briar hiang’s wounds hilarious Street kids, whether they were called rats or thukdaks, learned to fend for the her toward the table He pulled off his overrobe and folded it neatly, putting it on the sideboard "Have sos Evvy, grab that basket and co later Right noould use the healer’s trick of putting every idle pair of hands to work
Evvy stuffed the rest of a large slice of cheese into her rabbed the basket he’d pointed to He led her upstairs to the workroo Circle, but there were still plenty of lotions, balms, teas, and syrups, some of theht before out of habit, but he would need as much extra as he and Evvy could carry He fully subscribed to Rosethorn’s belief: soic
Quickly Briar filled se ones, wrote down contents on the corks that stopped the jars, and tucked them into Evvy’s basket Next he stopped at the linen chest and cushioned the jars with pads which could be es Froardening: they e was converted into a sling for the boards, which he hung on his own back
"What’s all this for? And why are you letting sout order you around?" Evvy wanted to know
"Because I can help and they won’t get anyone who can help better," retorted Briar, trying to think if he’dSuddenly he noticed a flaw in his plan to put Evvy to use "What gang are you with?" he asked Sohad a treaty with the Cahts with her abrupt reply "I’"
Briar made a face "Evvy, this is serious"
"So a, and I’ll never belong"
"Because if the Caan
"Is ‘I’ an idea for you?" she cried
Briar shook his head He’d get the truth out of her later Right now he needed an extra pair of hands Not only had Evvy shown she was inclined to obey hi and too little to try to fight him if he vexed her with an order He couldn’t say the sa room "Douna, is there a decent pot at the den? A clean one?" Douna, who had stuffed her mouth as rapidly as Evvy had, shook her head Briar marched into the pantry and cae as Evvy’s basket Boiled water was safer if the pot it got boiled in was clean He grabbed Evvy’s napkin from the front of her tunic, where it still rested, and tossed it to Douna "Wrap sout den was in chaos Gang members lay on pallets as others tended theht Very few Caht fresh victims, not five
Briar took a deep breath For so one of Summersea’s medical crises, one of the many times he’d been pressed into ith the sick "Why do they obey you?" he’d asked the woh to work carried out her orders
"It’s no mystery," she’d said then "I act as if they should And they’re frightened enough to turn instinctively even to those who only know a bit ht now And they did send for ain, after all They must trust me some He turned to Douna "Get that pot filled ater and put it on to boil," he ordered "Evvy, stick close to uts fro the staves froainst the wall Then he scratched his head and considered the roo Circle, he had worked in sickrooms in three epideuidance of Rosethorn and experienced healers What would they do?