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"It’s a sandwich, basically," Anyan said "But on a roll"

"Are they good?"

"Why don’t you find out," Anyan said, archly, as he led me over to the small stand

A short while later, I was in heaven

"If you were a bacon butty, I’d h he probably couldn’t understand me as my mouth was so full

"I have no idea what you just said," he toldmy suspicions "But you look happy"

"I’ve never wanted to e mouthful, "but this is like sex and flour"

"I’m sure, dear," Anyan replied, patiently, but I could tell he was carefully e bite just as he swore, and began inchingthe market’s roof

I chewed as I , even that most delicious sandwich turned to ash indown on an," I ht in front of us

I couldn’t believe I’d been so arrogant, thinking this mission would be easy I should have knocked wood--and by wood, Ito think, this , that this would be a vacation That we’d spend the rest of our ti, only to have the relics plop in our laps with little effort

Plus, we’d all been so sure the Alfar would send sos for themselves when they could send a an here, anyway?

She looked gorgeous, of course, but very different than she had at the Coreen dress that clung to her form on top, but swirled out into a kicky, fun little skirt that came just to her knees The outfit was capped off by a pair of toweringly high heels: all gold but for a reen jewel pattern in a T-bar across her arch

I couldn’t stop staring at her,to see her again after everything that happened The last ti her husband and king, Orin But now, here she was--not only looking happy, but really looking happy, in a way that wasn’t at all Alfar

What happened to the dead-eyed,vague pronounceive a shit about? That Morrigan had been replaced by a sharp-eyed sex-vixen

The two guards flanking her were goblins, their tall, bony frames clothed in the sort of anonyoblins’ yolk-yellow eyes scanned the crowd ceaselessly, and they looked ready to take care of anyone they uards: I couldn’t tell exactly what factions they were, yet, but they looked just as serious in their own dark suits as did the goblins

My eyes itched to return to Morrigan, but I refused Instead, I carefully assessed our surroundings and our positioning

Gog was still doing his sweeping thing, but his body was stiff Blondie atching the proceedings fro her awareness Out of the corner of an’s party by a e her way forward She wasn’t wearing her overcoat, and her wings fell about her like a wash of coal

We had good placement in the market, I decided, but the location itself was the worst place to be for a real fight At twentywith stall owners and employees, a few tourists, and quite a few people on their way to work, picking up a coffee at one of the various little cafés dotted here and there