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But it was hours before he did

CHAPTER SIX

CALL WOKE UP to a sound like so in his ear He threw hi in a crouch and banging his knee against the cavern floor The horrible sounds went on and on, echoing through the walls

The door of his rooan to die away Aaron appeared, and then Taray cotton tunics over loose-fitting pants made of the same material Both of them had their iron cuffs claht wrist, Aaron’s on his left Ta hair in two dark braids on either side of her head

"Ow," Call said, sitting back on his heels

"It was just the bell," Aaron told him "It means it’s time for breakfast"

Call had never been woken up for school by an alarm before His father had always coently until Call rolled over, sleepy-eyed and gru home fiercely

Tamara pointed behind Call, her perfectly tweezed eyebrows raised "Did you sleep with your knife?"

A glance back at the bed showed that the knife his father had given him had been knocked off his bedside table -- probably struck by one of his flailing aret hot

"So "Other people have knives"

Ta up the blade as Call pulled hi on to the post of the bed to keep his balance, even though he wanted to With his clothes cru up everywhere, he was conscious of the hi his already hurting leg

"What does it say?" Tale "Down the side Seht, Call said, "I bet you’re pronouncing it wrong"

"And I bet you don’t even knohat the name means," Tamara smirked

It hadn’t even occurred to Call that the word on the blade was the knife’s nas that had na Arthur had Excalibur and in The Hobbit, Bilbo had Sting

"You should call her Miri for short," Ta it back to him "She’s a nice knife Really well made"