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Lia nodded "It will coe? What happened?"
Colvin folded his arreat interest and respect at first The Alderrave and listened patiently Then he started to ask questions over the days that followed He is a cunning erous His questions seemed honest at first and would listen to our persuasions cal he asked caused doubts as to whether he believed it For exaiven in our country and not in Daho But he challenged and questioned and poked at the circu to learn from which Abbey we had learned of it Ellowyn mentioned an Abbey in Pry-Ree, but could not re I cannot speak Pry-rian He continues to seek the name of the Abbey in Pry-Ree Would there was a e could warn the his ar has been given Noe et you both out of here There are secret tunnels within these walls I aet Martin to help us and ill leave on the ship you saw"
"Martin is here?" Colvin asked, perplexed
"There is so much to tell you Here, enjoy the apple while I tell you what happened and where I left your sister"
He gratefully accepted her idea but offered her the first bite of the apple, which she accepted Never had an apple tasted so sweet to her She enjoyed watching hi each bite, while she related her adventures There was Kieran Ven and the Evnissyen of Pry-Ree and how she had learned that the Apse Veil would not take the Marciana in Dieyre’s castle in the Stews and watched his face turn pale with anger at what the Dochte Mandar had done to her and what Dieyre had done to Reoustin Abbey and its treacherous Alderhed with surprise when she described how she had huuardians She mentioned the cave outside of Doviur where she had slept, protected by a Leering and confessed how she had thought of him and wondered where he was As they discussed it, he said he had been wakened that night by whispers which had tortured hihts of her He had not slept since then, anxious about her and her safety Finally she mentioned Toht her to Vezins where she had ht before and how a lad naht her the rest of the way
"I am amazed," he concluded at the end of her tale "Truly the Mediu that you are nearby But I ht, and if they learn you are a s in this Abbey that are ancient There is one that I have come across It bears the ether like a strand There is a Leering down in the gardens that bears this mark When I touched it, it burned me Only a woman can touch it, I was told But in that brief touch, Lia, I saw that it guarded a doorway leading deep into the earth It led to a chairls ill becoe I saw in hten me to death If you do not have a kystrel, they will bite It is full of bones and death It is a place of pure fear There is so unnatural about serpents that make us fear them instinctually It is such a place" His face hite "You know that I fear enclosed places To be buried alive in a pit of snakes that will kill you unless you accept the hetaera oaths Lia…please…I beg of you You must not be captured They would put you in that place I have feared they would put my sister there when she arrived I could not bear it if either of you becae of the serpent’s lair send a shiver of disgust and loathing through her Yet it also sparked a memory She had seen the sy An awful anticipation welled inside her as she realized that she would need to find that place That it was the reason she had co her But it also told her not to tell Colvin
"I will be cautious," she answered, s at him "I want you to sleep, Colvin I atch over you"
He shook his head "Not yet I hunger to talk to you There is so ht me There is no one here that I can talk to There is no one here who knows my heart like you do" He leaned forward "Lia, there is so heavier and heavier This is a dark place, but I know that I will be free fro to leave these shores, to leave the shores of Comoros and find a place where such evil cannot exist There will be a scourging I can see it Those who accept the ways of the Dochte Mandar will fall to the Blight Those who support the hetaera will be killed I know this is a place of pure darkness where the Myriad Ones roae, I still feel the Medium with me I have remained true to my oaths I have not surrendered to their ways" He looked down, his face turning anguished "I hardly kno to say this to you"