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S very faint

Sohtest of touches He looked over at the Third Eye

She was grinning like a little girl He didn’t understand Then soht it close, but it et a look at it Snow?

It was cool tonight, but it wasn’t cold enough for snow Not even close

He could smell it now--the familiar mineral, chalky odor Blue luxin

More hit his upturned face, his arhts in order," the Third Eye said "I know you can’t see it, but every flake is blue Utterly beautiful, Lord Priser of doom"

Gavin’s heart dropped Other than in the mountains of Paria and Tyrea,snow Gavin caught a flake on his sleeve, squinted at it It looked like a snowflake The blue luxin, free of his control, was running a order Like organizing the crystals of a snowflake It was a tenuous order; the unnatural snoasalmost immediately

"If it starts with this, ill it do next?" Gavin asked

"So it We’re si us"

"The bane," Gavin whispered

She nodded

"Can you tell , and I see outside of ti stays in one place, it doesn’tit inside a particular time is problematic"

"Which isn’t the sa If he could save himself the trip to Paria to see the Nuqaba, he could avoid all sorts of problems

She scowled "No, it’s not"

Any time the Priss that could only be done by hiet aas doing one ritual for each color And one of those would now expose hiht be able to bluff his way past it, if he were there for only a week or two to find out what he needed, but the less he had to rely on his luck, the better And if she could just tell him what he needed to know…

She looked over at him, and it obviously didn’t take a Seer for her to knohat he was going to ask her next She sighed "I don’t see everything all the tiht I’ll look for it for you toer "I don’t promise that I’ll tell you all of what I see I don’t pro"