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She gathered so the to say that if they were dead, they couldn’t feel the cutting "If I knew that, weher voice, she said, "Stop rolling your eyes and sighing, Myrrhtide If there’s anything I hate, it’s a person who rolls his eyes and sighs when he’s impatient It just makes me move that much slower" Under her breath she added, "Twitterwitted Water terinned She learned "bleat-brain" from Briar

I put the dead stuff in her workbasket while she ot onon and off," I told the horse "It see about, Evu fro Jayatin and Oswin about our travels in the East"

I wrinkled my nose as we rode on "Not the nasty parts, I hope Nobody needs to re, and that ere caught in it"

"He was describing the temple of the Great Green Man," Jayat explained "I can’t even iine a solid jade statue over a hundred feet tall"

"It onderful," I said "The jade was the color of that grass over there It sang to h they weren’t very good It was hung with ropes of pearls, too They’re well enough in their way Briar really liked the blue and pink pearls, the ones as big as his thuood prices for those in the markets in Sotat and Emelan"

"But you weren’t i at me

"Well, they’re pearls They’re just fake stones, you know Cheats They’re dirt an oyster puts around grit to keep it fro to cheat people with fake stones like that Now, jade--the Green Man statue had it carved all kinds of ways, so it sang back to you in different tones"

We talked about my travels as we rode onto the shores of Lake Hobin We’d finally reached Moharrin, just as dark was setting in Torches were lit on the road along the lake, to guide us past faro let Azaze knoe’re here" As Jayat rode ahead, Oswin told Rosethorn and Myrrhtide, "I know you’re too tired for a big reception, but Azaze--our headwoather there as a reet you"

"As long as there is a decent reet me as they choose" Myrrhtide snapped his horse’s reins and moved ahead of us

"I don’t think you have to worry" Oswin sounded very innocent in the dark "Azaze gives a decent htly "Naughty"

I don’t think Myrrhtide could hear Or if he did, he pretended he didn’t

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The Inn at Moharrin