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We waited and did nothing, only listened Luvo and I sent ourforOn theones, little ones…They welcoe themselves I wished them well on their journeys to new shapes

"That was very, very close" Jayat, like an to unwrap his shirt fro scars on Jayat’s back He shrugged and said, "Not everybody was sad when the foreign lords killed as many pirates as they could find"

I nodded I could see that he wouldn’t be too upset at that "Luvo? Are you all right?" I asked

Luvo wandered over to the ledge to look down into the dead canyon "The crack in the earth beside the road closed, but a new one opened down below I do not recommend that you try to use the new line of power, Jayatin There are seams of quartz crystal around and below it They will ular"

"Are you sure ould do so badly, Master Luvo?" Jayat sotten pretty good at finding ways to draw on this stuff, you know We have to, you see We’re just a little bit desperate at thestone…"

"The strength you used is affected by certain laws, including those of crystals, Jayatin" Luvo was in his teaching ic passes into quartz as light does It is reflected froather it up quickly, if yourthe seae clusters Within each cluster the crystals are turned in their own arrangements They will reflect each bit of power back upon itself, then to other crystals You would be trapped here, chained by yournoise above our heads

So did Rosethorn "Luvo, be quiet" Her brown eyes searched for the source of the sound "Everyone, back up--"

Higher up the ave way The shock had broken it fro a train of sathered the strength of its falling, picking up speed

And then it flipped, like a coin in a street ician’s hand In my head I had been set to send it on a neat detour around us--until that flip When it leaped high in the air and came down like a six-ton ax, there was no tiot Luvo was there I just threw up ranite in through my feet I hurled it around that slab and the worst of the boulders

They locked into place over our heads They were as solid in the air as they had been on theto do now

Luvo’s power slid into place over mine, cool opal slabs over my thin mica sheet "I have it, Evuently lifted all that stone away froentleness, as if one slip ht break the baby That was how Luvo settled the slab and its boulder friends in the canyon below, as if they were his children, and he didn’t want to disturb their sleep