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I looked around Rocks had fallen into the riverbed froes in the rapids A crack had opened in the riverbed That had dropped the botto down into the new channel, throwing up a fine, cool spray Moharrin had a neaterfall

"There was a shock?" I asked I offered the flask to hi shiver, but a hard one Some trees fell" There were shadows in Oswin’s blue eyes It o? I must have been entranced for a while," I said

"Go back to see Nory try to get the axle fixed on that cart?" he inquired "The sht have done it--he’s sweet on her--but he left with the s so it I’d offer, but I doubt she’d even let ain I feel bad I couldn’t get her and the kids a decent cart"

"You do lots of other things for theround beside hiet buried in ash and lava What were you doing away fro poould take so long" He offeredthe fault under the river on out to the sea" I looked over at the granite marker nearby It had fallen over I called to it Slowly, pulling against the soil, it straightened I tugged on the surrounding rocks They rolled into place, bracing the ain

Osed hard "I’ic"

I shrugged

"Maybe you know the answer to this, since you’re the stoneand small? Tahar and Jayat don’t knohat they are, apart from the fact that they carry power They only know they can use them" Oswin drew his knees up to his chest like a boy and wrapped his ar with curiosity "They never say where the power comes from, or why they find it in these places, and not in others When the lines moved, Tahar and Jayat were at a complete loss They couldn’t find new ones"

"But that’s silly," I told hi power, and sweep across the ground? The big faults didn’t move far They couldn’t Look The lines--they’re faults, or seams in the earth’s stone cloak The faults reach down Miles, some of them Way below us, the world is full of e teachers call it ma inside the world, lava when it’s out in the air It’s heat, it’s pressure--it would ht, it’s the elements that em ever was"

"How do you know?" Oswin asked me

"What?" I was confused

"How do you know that’s what’s in it?"