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"But Jarl sahat happened to Morrigan, and he’s no longer quite so willing to becoh of the White, yet, to make the transfer That’s why they needed the book, to find thethose pieces," Gog said "And save Jarl fro the White"

IJarl,’ " I said

"But that’s e’d be doing, Jane," Anyan said "He’ll face another sort of justice, if we succeed, but we do have to save hiested, unapologetically and ruthlessly

"I doubt Morrigan actually needs to use Jarl for the White, although she obviously wants to If we kill hiies on finding the ies on vengeance," Blondie said, in a voice that brooked no arguruht

"So let’s get to it," I said, trying not to pout that we didn’t get to go ahead and kill Jarl "Let’s go over those pages and see what there is to see"

Blondie pulled the them, and spread theotten to act on any of this, yet?" the Original asked Hiral

"I don’t think so," he said "She got back to the estate, and there was souards and she was very irritated with hihty boy,’ " Hiral finished, punctuating his sentence with air quotes

I made a face, even as I bent low over the table to examine the papers

It wasn’t hard to find the bits ere looking for as they weredifference, which was obvious if you knehat you were looking for I read the spaced-out selections forthe rest of the text as it was nonsense It was fun to read, if a bit challenging, as the language was still written in an archaic style even though the spelling had been cleaned up to inal one did loft the weapon that made her champion… and did use that weapon to cleave the beasts in twain… after which she did hew through their necks… and their li was left but those bits too s… all of the body drawn together as if by a greater power… its parts surging towards one another…"

Iparts"

"… Cyntaf did continue applying her blade… yet the parts would not cease their rievous and deep… as her strength faded our wise ones knelt in prayer to the Elements… and were blessed with the idea to travel forth with the pieces of the White and the Red… dispersing thehout the lands… None would knohere the others went… their hiding places were secrets unto themselves… the only place they would be shared would be here, in this secret volume… compiled by the scribe whose ain as is traditional, would become a prisoner of this text…"

My words trailed off as I realized who they were talking about "The librarian!" I shouted, feeling so angry with the Alfar for ruining another person’s life out of their own greed for knowledge they knew they shouldn’t use, anyway "The doppleg&auer, Sarah She’s the one whose brain they cleaned out, isn’t she? And she’s trapped in that library?"

Blondie’s face was sad as she nodded her head

"I realized long ago she’s trapped in that library, and why She’s not the first, either There have been many other librarians before her I knew they kept Alfar secrets, but I didn’t kno they did it I didn’t know about the books they wrote"

"Does she even knohy?" I asked

Blondie shook her head "She just feels like she has to be in that library all the tireat task She never truly questions her duty Herso Even if she read this, she’d forget upon turning the page