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"You’re a red wight," Kip said again

"Kip," Gavin said "I think you’ve had too much wine Why don’t you--"

"You traitor!" Kip shouted at Andross "Youdrunkard out of here," Andross said "Now!"

He was a red wight How couldn’t everyone see it? So maybe reds usually went insane in otten past them? Did they just not dare to ask? Were they all too afraid, hoping someone else would take the risk first? Surely there should be ways to deal with old drafters who hid themselves away

But the rules didn’t apply to Andross Guile The rules never had He was the man whose mansion that he never even visited was taller than mansions were allowed to be He was the man who’d raised two sons who had become Prisms, who’d held on to a seat on the Spectrus But he was no man; he was a monster

Grinwoody seized Kip by the front of his tunic and hauled him away Kip didn’t knohat came over him He broke Grinwoody’s hold, just as he’d learned in his training, and stabbed his fingers for the ht his hands up, palers with each hand and yanked down in a fingerlock

The wiry old man dropped to his knees, surprised, and Kip kicked hi down the steep stairs to the ship’s waist

Kip charged Andross Guile to tear off his hood and spectacles, to show Gavin what Kip was certain of He was almost on top of the old man when he saw the knife Andross drew

It was too late to stop The old ht at Kip’s stomach Kip swept it aside and crunched into the old man and into Gavin, who’d stepped in to intervene

Kip tore the oldhis ribs Andross Guile was spitting fury, deep in the grip of red, attacking as fast as he could, deterrabbed Kip’s tunic with one hand

It was a tangle of li to knock Andross Guile’s attacks aside so he didn’t skewer Kip Kip landed a punch on Andross’s face, then couldn’t reach hiht ar Kip’s left arm

Andross Guile’s spectacles, knocked askew by Kip’s punch, now fell off as the fury raged through him He attacked like a

A whistle was screeching, sailors were screa up steps from the cabins belowdecks They’d never make it in time Kip only saw Andross Guile’s eyes--the halos broken, red throughout A red wight

Kip didn’t even reotten into his hand Letting Gavin get between hiht hand out behind and around his father and stabbed the old bastard He caught him in the meat of the shoulder

The oldcracked across the back of Kip’s head and the weight of another body joining the fray crushed the When Kip turned, he saas Grinwoody Grinwoody, old but Blackguard trained Two bare knives were in the le of lier by far, and while he was trying to keep Andross fro him with the ser blade at the sa it toward Andross, but if soe to stop fro himself

In a split second, Gavin’s eyes flicked up to Kip’s Kip saw that his father had the saht--but then the desperation in Gavin’s eyes was replaced by an odd calm A decision reached A choice made Peace