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I can't even fatho so at the blade of grass - that this isI've experienced inin the presence of thein his clover-brownies scent, and realizing how deter ho, I put space between us then step towards the entrance

"Where do you go, witch?" He plants his large hands onfar

I hunch and wriggle, but he's not letting go "To clienuinely puzzled

"It's where I go when I'm upset"

He releases me with one hand and pulls me back into theme "We have no time for trees," he says, all business "Green Dawn Cave coo to battle"

"I don't" My frustrated refusal fades under his glare

"You don't what?" he asks dangerously

"I don't kno to fight I just want to go sit in a tree until it's over!" I' and I peek over ot so, with loops at either end He's strapping one loop around his belt As I watch, he straps the other around mine

Shit

"So you do not run off to a tree," he says, aze briefly "Because you are not of this world, you receive a reprieve instead of punish"Can't be that hard" I can also get away faster if I'rab the boar head

The countdown draws ?"

"A battle-witch is the only person in ood, I think What happens in nine days?"

He goes still, the boar mask halfway to his head, and then lowers it

"I know it's the end of the era I thought" The last thing I want is his full attention on ht what?" He's not resu his ic tell you?"

I hold uphe can't see what I do "It marks the time before the end of the era In ood news I'd like to knohat's co Maybe"