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I felt for the line of power that was supposed to be under the cracked granite post I didn’t sense anything I let h the stones beneath it There was so There had been strength beyond the normal in those dull bits of stone The quartz there clinked with an echo of it, but it was just an echo

I let ic run deeper and deeper I sensed a huic had once felt It called torab that fizzing sense of being alive…

Then I fell off my horse

It’s not as if it never happened before I start to chase soets to hold the reins, or to keepon because I’, so it does what the other horses do This ti of dead trees around a dead pond My horse did, too, only suddenly, because it almost walked into Fusspot’s horse Fusspot’s horse objected toso close It turned its head and snapped My horse backed up and sta The stah that I slid down my horse’s side

At least my body knehat to do, even if my attention was so acrobat

Rosethorn grabbed me before I landed in the pond This tiue when she pointed at the water

Dead fish floated there Dead anie The skin of the fishes was eaten away

"Acid" Fusspot looked absolutely miserable "This water has turned to acid"

"These plants and trees have been poisoned by it" Rosethorn dragged me to my feet, away from the water I didn’t complain, not after a look at those fish I didn’t want my shoes burned off ht"

"Not here, anyway It e in the water table elsewhere"

Myrrhtide never knohen to give up