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"So who told you that?" he asked "About us dying"

"My father," said Call "He went to the Magisteriu to experi at you at the Trial? Who threw that knife?" asked Aaron

"He doesn’t usually act like that," Call isterium and he’s still alive," Tamara pointed out She’d lowered her voice "And my sister’s there And some of our parents went"

"Yeah, butabout the school He won’t even talk about it He says my mom died because of it"

"What happened to her?" Celia asked She had a package of root beer gummies open on her lap, and Call was tempted to ask her for one because it reet and also because she sounded kind, like she was asking hies, rather than because she thought he was a raving weirdo "I ht? She raduated first"

Her question threw Call He’d luht about the tiht soue about the details What he’d focused on was how the o to hich is often, they don’t care about the people who die because of it

"A war," he said "There was a war"

"Well, that’s not very specific," said Tae War The Enemy’s war"

"All I know is that they died soasped

"So she died on the mountain," Jasper said

"Thenervous Call re about pony school

"The Cold Massacre," said Gwenda He reme like it was her birthday, heraround her face "Don’t you know anything? Haven’t you heard of the Enemy, Drew?"

Drew’s expression froze "Which enehed with annoyance "The Enemy of Death He’s the last of the Makaris and the reason for the Third War"

Drew still looked puzzled Call wasn’t sure he understood what Gwenda had said either Makaris? Eneht of their expressions