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I have the girl bring a tray to your roo a sauce

not when youll all be so busy Ill coht,replied Tris Assured that it was, she took the staircase from the courtyard to the first floor

She had just set an armful ofjumshidas books on her bed when she heard Niko call frolass creature eating our antimony?

Tris walked over to the open workroo the glass dragon Despite his long day at the conference, Niko looked fresh and crisp His clothes, e, showed not a single wrinkle Niko wore a sleeveless grey linen ov errobe and breeches, and a paler grey silk shirt, its full sleeves neatly buttoned at the cuffs On his feet were black slippers with turned-up toes He refused to wear Tharian sandals, telling Tris that he would reserve the sight of his bare toes for him self alone

At one and three-quarter metres Niko was fifteen centimetres taller than Tris was, and wiry, with silver-and-black hair worn in a horse-tail most of the time He possessed a full, natty, black-and-silver moustache of which he was vain, heavy bla ck-and-silver brows, and deep-set black eyes His face was craggy, the strong nose jutting from it like the prow of a ship

Niko stared down that foron, who sat on its hindquarters, staring up at the e Its muzzle was coated with antiood for you?Tris asked it

As if in reply the dragon twitched, its belly roiling A ullet to forlass flames that dropped as soon as they broke away froons chin to catch the pieces When the creature finished, Niko had a pallass flames

cant think of the last tion vomit in my hand,Niko res as dragons Need I also point out there are no such things as living

glass dragons?

Tris picked the creature up and cradled it in her arms shouldnt stuff yourself that way,she told it couldnt absorb it Surely you cant be hungry after all you ate at the shop

eating is how she learns the nature and substance of things, reht all, who can tell if she truly sees or not?

s an it, not a she,protested Tris She held up the dragon so Niko could see its belly was unant and dainty a creature, with such wonderful eyes,