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I nodded, though it made my head spin "Yes, Headwoes it"

"Evvy and I have an understanding" Rosethorn had returned with packets of herbs and a rabbed the teakettle and poured hot water into theher in the first e come to It’s a solution that works tolerably well for both of us"

I watched sadly as she tipped powders into the ic with them Her power just made the brew taste that much nastier

"Is this Evvy such a handful? She seeht" Azaze had a real se’s miller, weaver, and carpenter, who sat with us, were out-and-out chuckling

"As much as my student--her former teacher--Briar was a handful," said Rosethorn "He and I had a si faces You will need a clear head tonight You are drinking this, whether you like it or not"

"Not even honey?" I had to ask, though I could see she hadn’t looked at the honeypot

"Honey would just iven you for racing off without a word" Rosethorn looked at ive this tea nasty side effects I’ "You could try harder tosmile "Nohere would the fun be in that?" She turned to the -and-leirl nodded

"She’ll need a cup of that to start, then a cup of the white bean soup If she can eat more, the artichokes in oil," Rosethorn ordered

I held ulped a ht it would be a reenish taste of cellar etables stolen from cellars I knehat that taste was Wherever did she find the herbs for these drinks? I was always afraid to ask She would tell an to dry My stoulps of the stuff My ears stopped ringing My knees, ankles, elbows, and wrists felt like they were s My brain decided I was not on rocking ground, but a solid bench My heart stopped hae" With ed Rosethorn not to say the dreaded words

She looked into the y herb paste waited Then she checked e on the open hearth fire It roared up in flaasp I looked at Rosethorn with admiration What had she put in that tea?

Thewhat had happened when Jayat showed s, I ate slowly and carefully

"How could you go under the earth if your body did not go?" While she had waited for Rosethorn to finish doctoring es do this?"

I shook h to take out the rocks I had gathered that day and put them on the table When I’d first come in, the smallest of them had felt too heavy for me to lift

"Don’t talk with youra cup of nor friend will have water" Two of the other people Azaze had sent for arrived The maids rushed to serve them

I sed my beans so I could answer Azaze "It’s useful if you can do it, the traveling in your s on his mountain It’d take hirinned at Luvo "So he just goes around as his s with Luvo gone?" That was Myrrhtide, asking a nore He looked at my small pile of rocks and didn’t even sniff

"My mountain rejoices" Luvo walked over to stand in front of Myrrhtide, so that Myrrhtide would have to watch hie its crystals and pillars, or redirect its strealaciers I do not reshape it with avalanches, floods, or tremors It can slumber in the sun and cold in peace My , Dedicate Initiate Myrrhtide"

"No wonder you get on so ith Evvy" Myrrhtide leaned back, though he kept his eyes on Luvo "Being so wise, Master Luvo, I’ under this mountain"

"Warn you? As I have said, I did not know" Luvo sat on his rounded stone rump, his head knob pointed up at Myrrhtide "And what is the point of a warning? The volcano will be born, devouring all in its path It will continue to destroy, or it will become land, and a mountain The new eats the old It is always so"

"But we’re humans," said Myrrhtide "We can flee Provided we have tie notable who ca to work out, once the entire village council is here" We had forgotten that Azaze was listening "Evvy--it is Evvy?"

I nodded I was fishing stones fro the bit of obsidian, like puray rock that had begun life far below the earth There were other kinds of volcano rocks that had been high on Mount Grace