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Jebilu lurched to his feet "Where are your things?" he de down his cheeks "I will house you with the chief palace scribe, since you refuse to live in the palace His wife is a firm parent who knows to keep an eye on you We have ti theers over her freshly-bandaged hand, then looked at Jebilu and Briar "I’irl," Jebilu began, his face stained orange with anger "Do not take that tone withwith you," Evvy retorted, glaring up into his face "And nobody in the world can ured I’d look at you because Pahan Briar thought it was ih, I can tell it was just another of his strange notions, like belonging to a gang"

Jebilu glared at Briar "This is what co with fury "They have no sense of the honor being done therateful?" Briar inquired, curious "You’ve treated her like a slave since you got here"

"I know your kind," Evvy told Jebilu "You’ll treat me like dirt and kiss the buuttersnipe, but you’re a zerna you dish out will be as rancid as er at Briar "This is not my fault!" he cried "Tell that -- female I was prepared to do my duty and was refused!" He crawled into his litter and yanked the curtains around hirunt of effort and carried the stone e out of Golden House

Briar looked at Evvy with the saave to Rosethorn when the woot the better of her If Evvy had planned every word, she could not have chosen a speech better calculated to burn Jebilu twelve ways from midday

I’d say the guttersnipe won this gaht And my problem is the same as it was before Rosethorn went to talk to old Jooba-hooba Somebody has to teach this kid the basics, and I suppose that somebody is me "So what’s a zerna him, one shoulder hitched up defensively, as if she expected hirinned "Someone who lives off the rich, like a tick that sucks money instead of blood"

Briar shook his head "He would have been a rotten teacher anyway"

"I thought so Can we eat?" asked Evvy cheerfully

"You don’t understand," Briar said, trying to make her see it as he did "The only rocks I ever studied were the kinds that could be spelled to row better, like ic on the fertilizer or the seed, because the stone fightson Briar’s high stool "You’ll think of so, Pahan Briar You’re awful smart And you don’t think you’re better than people just because there’s silver in your pocket"

She doesn’t know, Briar thought, bewildered and scared She thinks I’s She sees a pahan, not a fourteen-year-old kid who’s spent the last four years with his nose in the dirt

Had Rosethorn ever felt this way? As if he thought her perfect, and ht be disappointed if he found she was huued a cooler part of himself Talk her around and talk Jooba-hooba around You could maybe do it You talk a fair stitch when you want to

Did he want to?

She needs to learn to read and write, he thought; I can teach her that I re the stars, and how to use paper and ink I can teach theEarth teic, and we can find her a stone e once we leave Chammur

It could be done But hoas he to tell Rosethorn? He kneas good for the student to live close to or even with the teacher Rosethorn definitely would not like it, if he brought another resident into their hoht say he should have ht to live in the same place," he remarked quietly

She had re, not distracting him with chatter Now he saorry in her eyes "I can’t leave my cats," she replied "I just can’t Please don’t askLittle Bear should go with Tris, ould have missed him the most Still, it had hurt Briar to see Little Bear walk onto a ship without hi, not his alone What would it be like, to be forced to give up a pet?

He chewed on a thumbnail I could find another house,the amount of cash he’d left with the Earth temple treasurer He had plenty, but he always liked a plu Lady Zenadia had bought the larch, or at least, it would be good once Briar had the coin in hand Nobles often changed their ot home and added up their accounts

"You’re more trouble than you’re worth," he inforirl That’s irls he knew -- then sobered "I didn’ttrouble I’ood teacher"