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perhaps a cup of water for the koris?

The

Arurilobe frolobe was fully fifteen centi inside When Dema held it before his eyes, he saw a room in its depths It looked to be soh dais with seven backless chairs Beyond it was a good-sized room furnished with benches, and another, smaller dais with a p odiu dais before the chairs De the swollen, dark face of a stranglers victim, even under a

yaskedasus s and short tunic, with brightly coloured short ribbons stitched into the sea of her neck, but the bright yellow ends of a yaskedasus veil once ht froates seated in the chair look right at the body

Did the captain at the Heskalifos

Arurimat tell you? Dema inquired

This was a ator,replied the clerk, and that if I spoke to anyone else before you gavedisorder

was right, De to examine the ball He looked at the proscenium that framed the dais There, in htly pain ted walls that wrapped around Khapik, with the yellow pillars that ht side was the Elya Street

Arurimat He knew this place It was the Fifth District s Forum, where the affairs of that part of the city were discus sed and voted upon before the seven District Speakers The place was closed during the day, when everyone worked He glanced out of theof his office: the sun was reaching the horizon They would open the Forum any minute

Dema shoved the ball into the basket re withthe water the

Aht To the arurim Dema said, want a full squad at the Fifth District Forum, soonest We ll need barricades, arurimi to watch therabbed his e s kit in his free hand and strode out of his office

T I go home?whined the clerk ve been all over the city My ill be worried