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"Sethi kodi," Solon acknowledged, his Old Sethi diction perfect

The harbormaster released Solon’s face as if burned "What was your name?"

"Solonariwan Tofusin"

One of the Modaini sailors cursed The harbor knife was still out and tucked it away as if it were scalding "I think you’d better co on?" the captain asked

Neither Solon nor the harbormaster answered Solon clambered into the rowboat with the harborned for five hundred years"

Not exactly It was four hundred seventy-seven

"Reigned? They don’t any into the rowboat, Solon couldn’t help but so If this one really is a Tofusin, there’ll be all sorts of hell to pay"

That, on the other hand, is dead on

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Khali’s blood," Paerik swore, striding confidently across Luxbridge toward Dorian "That was rather impressive Who are you?" His eyes took in Jenine but dish it wasn’t He’d destroyed a few teenage boys who had underestimated him Paerik Ursuul was a man in the prime of his powers And he was fresh And he had six battle-hardened V&uu him

One of the V&uuhtened "No, surely not Dorian?" He stepped forward and Dorian stepped forward as well, not willing to let Paerik reach the end of Luxbridge unchallenged Paerik s that smirk, Dorian hated him, despised him, wanted to crush him

"I am Dorian," Dorian said defiantly Six Vürdmeisters and Paerik Damn it, he only wanted to leave The dark clouds overhead rushed past, coldly i dead, brother," Paerik said "A mistake we shall soon re the weaves to sweep the V&uu at the e into the abyss

They rebuffed the attacks with ease Even with the aether

"Brother, brother," Paerik ade will not drop a true-born Ursuul" He laughed and skulls eloith er, it would be you, Dorian: theon," Dorian said He stepped forward, out of the shoe he had cut free with his Talent, and put one bare foot on the bridge

There was a flash as the last quarter of the bridge sensed awith a shower of skulls that laughed no longer He and the V&uu vir at the distant walls, hoping to catch theic purchase The V&uuht into the thick foul clouds of the abyss Dorian could sense their , desperately Then they winked out, all at the sae reformed itself Dorian stepped back into his lead-lined shoe and tested it on the bridge It flared green and began to turn transparent He had simply used too much Talent too recently for the thin defense of the lead plating to be adequate, so he stretched the vir forth once o quickly," he told Jenine "Stay close"