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skull is your h her touch reentle braids, Kethlun,she replied She sat back with a sigh; she thought she had got every puncture The ones she had tended first were already healed Byhe wouldnt know hed been hurt Briar, her foster-brother, brewed up good ic I store power in my braids for when I need it They hold it because I pin them in certain patternsShe set the balm aside and pointed to the thickest braid It ran from the middle of her forehead to the nape of her neck Earth force here, bled out of a few earthquakes Tidal force in these braidsShe touched two on each side of her head Ith off these, or a lot, depending on what I need

Then you collapse after you run out of it,Niko said you collapse once you use any of your braids but the little ones

Tris shrugged and quoted a great-aunts favourite saying: business requires some riskShe looked back at Kethlun and saw that he didnt believe her she indicated four , like the two bysound that Tris thought was probably a hiss of warning did tell you to stop,she reht have used soht to know about?Keth wanted to know, sently

Theres a feind ones in there, soo all frizzy Then power starts leaking out through the loose hairs Its hard enough keeping everything s in my braids as is Tris spoke in her most matter-of-fact voice He probably thinks Niko wont ruin the joke about weather in ht If I have to teach hio well if hes afraid of lanced at Jumshida and her heart sank

Their hostess was ashy under her bronze skin Ju Circle knehat it was doing

were unusual circumstances,Niko explained He had not told Jumshida, or anyone, of the extent of Triss skills Tris had asked him not to unless it was necessary She had seen Jumshidas shock or worse, jealousy, dislike, even hate directed at her and her friends over their last year at Winding Circle, never mind that they had not chosen to be what they were

made Tris combine her poith that of her foster-brother and -sisters,Niko went on a result, they expanded and structured their original abilities Later events ain, but they kept certain abilities from each other The result, and the work they put in afterwards, brought their control over their e

Jumshida shook her head did not receive ht

Tris knehat the woht, when they knehat she had achieved It was too irl of thirteen or fourteen They saw only the awe of it, the ability to move hurricanes and earthquakes, the ability to do cos alone and without sleep, because she could borrow strength fror ound, and in the water Others drearand palaces, dress in silks and be given all they could wish for by the rulers they served

They didnt understand that she rip on her teht When she lost control, she destroyed property; she sank ships

They didnt understand that she had yet to find a way to earn a living Rain- was chancy S he always had to be sure that if she moved one storm, she would not upset weather patterns for kilohts She was best suited for battledead after her first battle still left her screaht She wanted to be a healer, but even now her control wasnt tight enough, unless people wanted her to do surgery with a mallet

And she hated the palaces and courts she and Niko had visited on their way south to Tharios They all seeled out,Tris told her, silently begging the woh Jumshida had been friendly since she and Niko had arrived Tris wanted that back didnt ask the Initiate Council for the medallion She stuffed it back into her dress and jumped down from the table When she sat on a chair, Chimecurled up in her lap

Niko told Jumshida, Initiate Council felt Tris, Briar, Sandry and Daja should be sworn to a code of conduct, to the rules of the e community, in case they were tempted to use their power unwisely As the council saw it, the choice was to grant the four the ics until the council felt they were old enough to knohat they held Niko siven the ht try to restrict her ability to get at hercould try to bind my power, she snapped This was the first she had heard of that debate

very like Sandry,Niko teased gently

Tris looked down Her foster-sister was a noble who forgot her rank until anyone questioned her right to hold it do you expect, after living with her four years?she grumbled She petted Chime its true all the sa you was a consideration,Niko ad his moustache would look very bad if we tried, and failed Not that a ny of you would have had the badhis eyebrows at Tris