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Evvy scowled at him "They’ll cook you and eat you if you tell," she said, repeating an old lie about Trader habits

"I’y," the ht you liked ruods would have found another path for us to enter this mess," Rosethorn said as she stirred the pot "Can’t you tell fate when it bites you?"

"No," Evvy and Parahan said at the same ti and baking flatbread on a heated rock "She took religious vows and everything"

Once they were seated with their otten arm feet were like Now, I need to ask, how are you three fixed if it coht?" The three looked at him "Evvy, stay back with the anie’ did you not understand?" Briar reached into the sling on the ground next to hie of the firelight closest to the road It burst, iround The vines shot up and out, sprouting their long thorns as they grew, spreading around the ground where they struck By the tiht and covered a circle of three feet in rough diae curls around one another Even in the flickering firelight the thorns could be seen So and two inches thick at the base, curled rather than straight like the longer ones

Parahan, fascinated, got up and started to walk toward the plant

"Don’t do that," Rosethorn said as the vines rustled "They’re still awake"

Parahan stopped The vines settled "You could kill a

"We don’t carry them for toys," Briar replied "Don’t be so upset I only let a couple of the seeds grow"

"Want to see what I have?" Evvy asked eagerly

"No," Parahan said suddenly "No, I don’t think I do"

"But you think I’ for child "You don’t think I can help protect us!" Rocks rose froan to whirl around Parahan’s head