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Call laughed bitterly "So you didn’t come near me because you didn’t want to blow my cover, and all that ti hilarious"
"I see nothing ae expression "It is fortunate that my son -- that Dreas able to ascertain that you had no idea who you really are, or you iven yourself away"
Call stared at Master Joseph "Are you going to killfor you," Joseph said "All these many years"
"Well, your whole stupid plan has been for nothing, then," Call said "I ao back and tell Master Rufus who I really aisteriuht, and that they should have listened to hi his head "I think I know you a little better than that, in any guise You’ll go back and you’ll finish your Iron Year, and when you return for your Copper Year, we’ll talk again"
"No, on’t" Call felt childish and s him "I’ll tell theic"
"They won’t --"
"They will," said Master Joseph "If they don’t kill you They’ll bind your ic and they’ll send you away to a father who kno, for certain, that he is not your father"
Call sed hard He hadn’t thought, until this moment, what Alastair’s reaction would be to this revelation His father, who had begged Rufus to bind his ic … just in case
"You’ll lose your friends Do you really think they’d let you close to their precious Makar, knoho you are? They will raise Aaron Stewart to be your ene for all this time That’s what Aaron is He is not your companion He is your destruction"
"Aaron’s my friend," Call said, in a hopeless sort of voice He could hear how he sounded, but he couldn’t stop it
"As you say, Call" Master Joseph had the serene look of a man who knew better "It seems your friend has some choices ahead of hio back to the Magisteriu sh to stand here and throw your defiance atless from Constantine Madden You were always defiant But when it comes down to the wire, when the choicethat matters to you for the sake of an abstract ideal you only partly understand?"
Call shook his head "But I’d have to give it up anyway You’re not exactly going to let isterium"
"Of course I a his elbow painfully into the wall behind hie breathed "Don’t you see --"