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After riding ht, Kylar ca Tribe and throwing a blanket on the ground A few hours later, Tribe’s snort woke him Kylar blinked and rolled to his feet

"So you haven’t forgotten everything I taught you," a brown-clad figure said, leading his horse to tie it next to Tribe

"Master?" Kylar asked

Dehvirahaman ko Bruhmaeziwakazari snorted It was odd to hear the sound, so characteristically Durzo, colanced at Retribution in Kylar’s hand "Good, I see you haven’t ain, yet See that you don’t, would you? You ready to ride?"

Kylar felt an odd excitey from his invocation of i this, am I?" he asked

Dehvi lifted an eyebrow "There’s one way to find out for sure," he said

"What’s that?"

"Go piss in the woods If you feel wet and warm afterward, wake up"

Laughing, Kylar went and relieved hied and had laid out a huge, albeit cold, breakfast

Kylar tore into the food with gusto that surprised hih apparently not Dehvi The scene still had an air of unreality, though, and Kylar kept glancing at hi for Durzo’sto see fewer and fewer of the rid of the rest as fast as I can A new face isn’telse the same I have done this a few tiet it over with"

"There is one thing Durzo told me that he never told anyone else You’ve had all these na: Ferric Fireheart, Gaelan Starfire, Hrothan Steelbender Even the other wetboys had na: Hu Gibbet, Scarred Wrable Why Durzo Blint? Is that another Old Jaeran pun?"

Dehvi laughed "Trick question I never told you why I chose it But to answer, it was supposed to be Durzo Flint I was drunk Soh to correct them Next?"

"Flint makes a lot more sense, you old bastard"

"Only by nature, not by birth Anything else?"

Kylar got griut, huh?" Durzo said He cleared his throat and looked away "Every new life costs the life of so If Durzo had told hi would be different Of course, Durzo had tried to tell him, in the letter

"Is there any way to stop it?" Kylar asked

"Yousomeone else?"

"Either Both"

"The Wolf never told me the li that would fully destroydrawn and quartered"

"And Curoch?"

Durzo shot Kylar a sharp look "A fatal blow froic Jorsin feared the Devourer He made sure there was at least one way to kill an i of dislocation He was talking with someone who had known Jorsin Alkestes Jorsin Alkestes! And Jorsin had feared thesohed "You think in seven centuries I didn’t try? It’s deep ic, kid A life for a life The Wolf can delay it, but not stop it, and it’s not easy even for him"