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Inside the inn’s public roo blankets as she supervised thefood in crocks

"Not that one, the lid is cracked! The first bump and we’ll have fish brine all over us! Firouze, pack that basket tighter--we aren’t going on a picnic" Azaze cast a quick dark eyeOswin’s children"

"They’re on their ith Jayat and two of your stable boys and Luvo," I told her "If they have any et here at all Have you seen Rosethorn?"

Azaze looked down that beak of a nose at irl?" She inspected s fro I have learned aboutWhat did you do out there?"

I scowled at her "What makes you think I did any work? And I had two and a half turnovers"

Azaze set the plate on a table with one hand She thrust me onto the bench in front of it with the other "You’re treic you worked, those turnovers weren’t enough to bring you back"

"They weren’t very big," I adround laan to eat while she poured me a cup of mint tea

"No one has seen your Rosethorn," Azaze said "Myrrhtide is still in the lake He’s workingfood out to him, for all the boy thinks I’es collapse as I have I hope whatever you did was iht so" I waited to say it untilback to work--I have , Firouze over there will get it for you" TheMaybe I was still hungry I cleaned the plate

I was right about the ht Once I was done, I knelt on the bench and studied it I th They followed the cracks that led to that huge chaht have been erased in the earthquakes, but only so new ones could open up

If I was to build ain, I had to find those new cracks and tap their strength Or, better yet, I could find one of the big veins that fed the small ones I touched a thick red line that showed a es had dared to tap these One of theht under the Makray River, all the way up to Lake Hobin I could reach the place where the river poured out of the lake easily Why bother with little cracks when I could go to a stronger source?

Somebody plopped down next to me "What’s that?"