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"She’s foundering! Captain, she’s foundering!" his face was livid with emotions, mostly fear The sky keened with the wind

Tomas turned back to Lia with a look of supplication

Lia advanced, swaying with the ship and stepped out into the stor washes had swaoing overboard She was blinded by the stinging saltwater, but she squinted as she pushed on, ignoring the howls from the crehen they saw her She used her ar, and then she saw the gray-eyed crewht her to the captain to begin with He was drenched but his expression cale

Then a cry from one of the crew reached her ears "Save us!"

It was picked up by another Then another "Save us! Save us! Save us from Sheol!"

"Shut your eyes!" she cried out "Do not watch what I do"

The Mediuan to churn within her, before she even raised her arripped the wooden bar to keep her balance Water splashed across her face Foaht of the Great Storm in Muirwood It ca rings in his hand Pasqua refusing to bake the required loaves of bread Sowe asleep beneath her blanket Lia saw the Aldermaston’s eyes, heard the tone of his voice The rains have plagued us quite enough They will cease Now

"Be cally "Be still"

The Mediuht and force She stared at the ocean, stared at the roiling waves as the wind died around theroans from the Holk settled as the waves slipped back down harmlessly She lowered her hand and stared next at the crew and found the their faces froht too look at

The sea was calainst the hull as the water drained from the ports and doors There was a hiss and curse in herinto the distance It was fa opened up herfrom the ship, tossed away like a heavy blanket In her is hunched over a fireithin Muirwood Abbey, scowling furiously The presence she had sensed was the Queen Dowager’s It was familiar to her because she had felt it not just in Muirwood, but she recalled feeling it earlier than that The night before the battle of Winterrowd, she had been plucked by an invisible hand, a hand so powerful she had assu’s will, his mind But she realized it was another hand – it was the Queen Dowager who had been the puppetal uses to walk the earth One of her s shriveled inside her when she finally realized that another hand controlled the Queen Dowager She could sense that presence still, vast as a starlit sky The Queen of the Unborn was on the earth She could assuh a Kystrel Lia realized it fully that the Queen Dowager’s fauise to live in the world Froain Pareigis was young But the being dwelling inside her was as ancient as Idumea

"I am confused and miserable How can I know the truth of what I aht is co it may be my destiny to stop it and not just warn of it I must pass thehas told me that it is my destiny to marry him, that our alliance will put an end to the civil war and ain He is a kind person, so very thoughtful, but so in his manner makes me distrust him Or maybe it is because in my heart, in the deepest part ofanyone but Colvin I could be the Queen of the realm – yes, me! But I do not desire it There is never time to sleep in this place It is study and celebration, study and celebration Every night going later and later I am so weary How can I pass the test when my mind is so tired? The Aldermaston thinks I am nearly ready I can hear the whispers of the Medium now They are all around me This place is so full of the Mediu But after several days in Dochte, the whispers are clear I especially hear theht What is my destiny? What am I supposed to do? Colvin says I must surrender to the Medium’s will I do not think he understands what that means for every time I look at hiement, the Medium whispers that he will be dom to be his"