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"What happens now?" Kylar asked

"Oneto write a book"

Kylar tented his eyebrows "No offense, Your Ogrishness, but what are you going to write a book about?"

"You kno I’ve always loved words I’ to write a book of words"

"I was under the impression that that’s whatto write a book defining all the words in our language I’ in Jaeran?"

"Yes"

"Defining Jaeran words?"

"Right"

"So you’ll have to already know Jaeran to read it?"

"You ave an I-wonder-why-that-is? shrug The idea of Logan’s co at ht he was serious Logan was scholarly, but he was no scholar He was born to lead This book idea was a pretense to shield hi Terah’sabout theht he was done He’d kept his oath to the Wolf He thought that now he’d be free to go ht with Elene But now Terah Graesin was queen She probably had a contract out on Logan already The best way to cancel a contract was to cancel the contract-taker And Terah Graesin deserved canceling One , things can be different There won’t have to be guilds or guild rats anymore Elene was still safe in Waeddryn He could do this in a week and be on his way

"Look, we have to talk an said, "I need to piss, and then I need to figure out what to do about the Khalidorans and this Lae’knaught army"

"What army?" Kylar asked

"I just--what do you mean, what army? You have that look in your eye"

"Those Khalidorans aren’t Khalidorans; the Lae’knaught’ve been wiped out, and we need to get to Cenaria before the Ceuran arhed

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Dorian sat in the chute rooe of one of the chutes This was the last pot of the day, and Dorian was sore, exhausted, and gruot to spend most of every day in the company of beautiful women The chute roo the slaves who brought in all of the Citadel’s hue chutes, and he was the happiest slave Dorian had ever ed every time he opened the door How the hell could Tobby be chipper?