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"He says you bought us time with a trick you played on the volcano spirits," Nory remarked

"Heibei, take this bad luck and bury it," I said

Nory thumped me in the arm "What’s that supposed to ers "You don’t hit me"

"I like you I don’t like Evvy What’s hay-bay?"

I sighed and rolled otten me a tweak of the ear if Rosethorn had been around "Heibei’s the god of luck back hood, not undependable, like your Lakik It’s bad luck to say a thing is taken care of, even when it’s Luvo saying it" I wasn’t as sure as Luvo that it would take time for Carnelian and Flare to see they’d been tricked I decided to keep that notion to myself "I’ll feel better e’re on ships and well away from this island"

"Your rescuers are here!" Jayat drove up in a cart that was some less rickety than the first one The new one already held two trunks--his and Tahar’s, I would have guessed "You kids start loading up, all right?"

Merye the cart The other kids scrambled to help

Treak, behind Jayat, dismounted from my horse and tied it to a tree branch Up the road ca they could use to tow the broken cart into the village

Jayat went to Nory "Why didn’t you have Oswin check that thing before he left?"

"He did He’s the one who fixed it so it would go" Nory could pout very prettily, I saw She also kne to use her beautiful eyes on poor Jayat "I believed hi about every little oldon the mountain I should have seen his ed it over to Jayat’s cart "Evvy’s rock says we have more time"

Jayat looked around "Luvo? How can this be?"