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"A uard you fro," I told hior"

"Piffle, all of it"

"You learned that word froued "Worse than useless if you rely on such toys instead of your oer"

I glared at hi on my oer It’s the power of the spells I made and stored in these ‘toys,’ you stubborn chunk of rock!"

"This is folly, Evumeimei Let these meat people flee this island Let us make our escape with them Oswin does not understand the is like Flare and Carnelian and their kindred are the agents that make and unmake the surface of the entire earth"

"You worry so because you can’t iave birth to you I understand But look here The force that made et in over ht I put Carnelian and Flare in a trap that ended up e I did I don’t want to be one of Rosethorn’s destroyers, even by accident

I patted Luvo on his head knob, which I knew he hated Then I made myself comfortable and closed my eyes

The fault that ran under the Makray, up under the lake and Mount Grace, arround in ical body I headed for Moharrin and the quartz trap Travel was so much faster withoutuseful when I moved like this I paid a price in exhaustion when I returned to o to the trap by foot or horse, I would have given up before I even tried I probably would have reached the trap too late for us all

A new earth shock picked me up It threw me from the place where the river left the lake all the way to the far end The volcano spirits were traveling in a fault just three miles froh the ground I could feel the truffles I jaround past them My claiood if I didn’t set them free

I smacked into Luvo’s black obsidian wall It curved above, below, and to either side of host floated in it: me Flare and Carnelian were on the other side I’d kept careful track of their location They were just three hundred yards beyond this wall, with its granite back The volcano spirits would only see this--at least until it began to h the cool black shield Behind it was the thick granite slab Luvo had set there That was guaranteed to slow the volcano spirits more than easily melted obsidian From it, and from the earth around it, I collected what I needed for irl shell fro thereen tours Black tourmaline served me for hair and eyebrows I shaped rose quartz into a old feldspar became my skin By the tiic and stone