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Liala clung to the small moorland pony and wondered if it would be quicker to walk Allain said they should ride because they were pretending to be shepherds and shepherds rode ponies when they wandered the s up Allain said that if they did a computer, in the palace, would record their behaviour as suspicious and send so implants that had been removed from real shepherds They were etheir sheep Allain said the guardians weren't as clever as they thought They relied on corammed

Their party had been reduced to three The coone off with Balduur on a secret mission In this case "secret"and wouldn't say His job was to take them to a sea cave that was special to the dolphins

Whenever things got really bad the dolphins went there The cave had a narrow entrance that could be defended against orcas Tunnels led in froet in

Liala desperately wanted to see the dolphins They would be worried about her just as she orried about thee and could iet an idea of what she was trying to say Crispin thought she was very clever Liala wasn't so sure Sheep dogs knew far more words of human speech

She wanted to see the dolphins and she needed thees to Crispin There was no other safe way The guardians were spying on them They had listened to their conversations in the laboratory That was how they knew about the Lord of Light

She had to tell Crispin that the two men hadn't come from the Ninth Realm One was a head hunter from the Seventh Realm and the other was a man called Tom Carter who cah If the realotto think just how priht be

And she had to tell Crispin about Bryn's sister They had to rescue her It was just ahat happened to decent girls She and Crispin had always thought that the girls who took part in the sex parties were licentious hussies Now she knew they rong The guardians put iirls' brains to control them They could switch them on and off like they did to the trolls