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"Where did they go?" He said

"Where did who go?"

"The priests," Skori said "There were supposed to be priests outside, holding a vigil for the cereht I could hear their chanting as I went to sleep Where are they now?"

"Well, it's alht have left"

"No, they wouldn't have," Jenius said, shaking his head "Vigils last until the third hour after sunrise They wouldn't have left unless it was an e the shoe that Tescadji had casually thrown his way

"Like the one we're having now," Jenius said "I'd prefer not to think of it that way, but in truth, the priestsless than pleasant"

"Wait a minute; does this have to do hat you toldrealization He slipped on and buckled his last shoe

"Ah, so he's catching on!" Tescadji reical shock to his backside fro the reers "There is no tiet ready to leave I'll explain it once everyone is ready"

It was slow going, but Skori eventually awakened everyone in the house But as they set to readying themselves for a departure that they did not understand, they soon discovered a problem

Alaema was nowhere to be found

"By theout of his room after a much-heated discussion with Sedriil "That fool of an android … I have half a mind to listen to Skori and just leave her here, but then I'd never hear the end of it froone off to?"

"Alae into the adjacent hallway from the den Whereas Garen and Sedriil had taken little to no tihtgown, its belt wrapped around her now pronounced belly

"Did you see her last night?" Skori said

"She was here e turned in for the night," Noroa said with a nod "She must have sneaked out sometime later"

"I swear, if she did that, then I'll kill her for you," Skori said to Sedriil, but this elicited no reaction of content as Alaema was to deal with, it was evident that everyone else orried to the point where the eative opinions