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Fros, we had just arrived The docks were a et onto the ships Men and woons and aniued and shouted at the guards, who told theh room The animals just looked confused Rosethorn, Myrrhtide, Azaze, Oswin, and the other village leaders were trying to get people aboard the vessels Tahar was aboard one sri Azaze

Nory was right beside ht it hurt She’d already pulled me half out of the saddle

"Stop that!" I smacked at her, or tried to My arm was too nu?"

She glared at me She had pulledand I’d be hanging off the saddle "Awake, are you? I’m here because I wanted to be around when you opened your eyes"

"Why?" I asked

"So I could do this"

Even if I could have h to escape the hard slap she landed on"While you were playing ave you a pretty rock she left at home She went back I’m not allowed to find her I’m needed to look after the others So she’s dead in all these shakes, or she’s hurt, or she’s going to starve All because you’re a pig who’s irls!"

Then she punched one back to Oswin’s house And the volcano was going to coood enough if a sirl was left on the island She would be out there while ash and rock bombs fell and set the forests afire

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Panic

I was struggling to get free of my ropes when I heard Rosethorn say, "Hold still, Evvy" My ropes were hemp, of course At Rosethorn’s coht me before I fell off Spark

"Oswin isn’t to know one of his children is o back for her, and Oswin has twelve others who need hi but true In the rush he won’t be able to count thee--or not at all"