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"Business only as any gardeners would conduct when they venture far fro prorows in different climates from my own I had been forced to put off such travels often Once Nanshur Moss received his certification in ether"

"Certainly we are glad to take advantage of so great a gardener’s visit," the emperor reassured her "Let us start our tour toin our day with the rising of the sun"

And she stays in bed until noon, Briar thought ironically

"We are accustos, temple dwellers and travelers as we have been," Rosethorn replied as graciously as any courtier

For soht with pride, she does it really well

"We shall send our servants to guide you to us, then," the e with you in a less for" The eazed at the man with his most innocent expression fixed on his face Fro very much like a smothered snort "What did you think of the review of our troops this afternoon? Are you now eager to set aside your trowel and watering can for a sword and shield?"

Briar set into plenty of trouble with plants I shake to think of the kind of mischief I would find with conventional weapons"

"Interesting, to find a youth who does not hanker for battle" The eer A servant with a tray appeared fro the tray to E just behind the emperor’s elbow stepped forward and offered him one of the small porcelain cups on the tray The e servant, he asked Briar, "Are the stories true? You are a full nanshur at such a youthful age?"

Briar sed a sigh He’d been asked this question fro and he was heartily bored with it Slowly he reached into the front of his robes

There was es stepped up to stand beside the throne on Weishu’s left Tere men in black scholar’s robes and caps, one a woman in scholar’s robes, and the fourth a xe, clad in the head-to-toe gray veil of those od Mohun A knitted screen covered his -- or her -- eyes These were all i Weishu’s closest advisers To his right arrior and slave servants, the for the only ones allowed to carry weapons in the room, the latter to wait upon their master

"We must be careful," the emperor explained "A nanshur is the only kind of assassin who could get so close to us"