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"You watch Azaze" Jayat had caught his breath "She won’t let people impose on your Rosethorn"

It was true: Two lared at the could it last? There had to be people about eren’t afraid of Azaze, headwoman or no And I’d seen plenty of headwoh rich people told the Rosethorn Girls in aprons were putting bowls and plates before Rosethorn and Myrrhtide They already had bread, hummus, and olives in front of the of the Battle Islands Rosethorn listened to Azaze and ate with a serious appetite That was good She wasn’t too tired to pick at her food

Oswin gave us bowls of chicken stew and pulled spoons wrapped in napkins froer and cinnaht us a tray of plates: hot bread, olives, chickpea and yogurt dips, lentils cooked with noodles, and pastries stuffed with eggplant I sedinto my stew It was delicious

"Is the death of your plants and trees so unusual, Oswin?" Luvo had settled on the table where he could watch the roos, hu like this, Master Luvo" Oswin scooped up hu, healthy ones, gone dead overnight--actually overnight And I’ve never seen so that killed plants and animals in the sa ater sources A pond that was good one day is acid the next, the fish, the plants all dead It’s like the place has been cursed, but it’s a randoe I’ll tell you, it’s the saddest thing in the world, to go to a place that was living a o, and find it…dead" Histhis, I’d like to durove byto have to cut it down, before it drops on one of the children"

Jayat looked up and sed hard "Speaking of your household"

I turned around A beautiful girl about Jayat’s age had come in She walked over to lean on Oswin’s shoulder and steal a piece of bread She raceful, as she whispered to Oswin Her hair was the color of dark honey She had a tiny, delicate nose I tugged at the end of ive it a little point It stayed flat

Osore "I told Treak if he started one ht he was out on his ear"

"I think that was the ear he wasn’t listening with," the girl replied Even her voice was pretty

"All right, I’ot up "It was very niceto ed on his ar to a rock?"

"Furniture?" Osas red again This ti, I think he was red fro beside him

"Remember I said he always needs food at his house?" Jayat asked "A lot of kids were orphaned or left behind when the pirates were cleaned out Oswin found homes for plenty of them all around this island, but not all of them The rest live with hi very closely I was looking at my tea instead I hadn’t touched the cup or jostled the table, yet the tea rippled, as if a stone had fallen into its center On and on the ripples went I looked at as left of my stew There, too, the liquid shivered I closed my eyes Grimly I concentrated on what I could feel Under host of a vibration in the floor and in the bench