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She sed "We don’t need to wash up first I didn’tby it I’m sorry I’m all thumbs at this I should shut up and--" She crossed her arrabbed her arnored the bewildered look on her face, went to his desk, and grabbed the papers He handed them to her, avoided her eyes

"You’re free I won’t be able to get it registered until the first transfer clears the e to me" That sounded bad, for some reason Kip rubbed his face with the towel "No one had slaves where I grew up, so I don’t kno people usually do this, but… I don’t want to knoorks The idea of coested… I hate , have you?" Teia asked

"What’s that got to do with anything?"

"So you haven’t"

Kip looked away "I have… bad drea it "

"Go to bed, Kip We’ll talk about this in the "

"I’m serious, Teia"

"Me, too To bed," she said firht I was theit ihed a little too hard, though, obviously at least as relieved as he was

He went to bed and, , Kip felt ridiculously well For ten seconds He caught hied himself clean, put on fresh clothes, and then poked his head out of his door quickly No spies, at least none that he noticed

He used the stairs to go down to his old barracks level He still didn’t have a plan, but he knew he couldn’t leave a priceless relic in some random chest forever He slipped into the barracks and walked quickly down the rows

The bed under which he’d hidden the dagger had been claimed The chest was moved to the foot of the bed, like all the other occupied beds Kip’s throat clae of clothes, an extra blanket, a few coins No dagger Oh hell Oh hell no Dear Orhola in my stuff?" a voice said from the latrine doorway It was a new boy, someone Kip had never seen before Pis in this chest," Kip said "Where are they? What have you done with the about? There was just the standard blanket when I got the chest Are you stealing from me?"

"Oh shut up," Kip said

"You’re Breaker, aren’t you?" the boy asked

Great Kip didn’t say anything He left

He went downstairs and got in a student line He was here during lectures, so the line was e lectures, too He took his ticup of kopi

"No, but so of mine is Do you have an area where you keep lost items?"

"Indeed," the man said "What have you lost?"