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"You can learn from anyone Even your enemy"

- Gideon Penman of Muirwood Abbey

CHAPTER THIRTEEN:

Earl of Dieyre

The rains paused rounds and sht Thunder rumbled ominously There was so uests and retinue that Lia’s sleep was interrupted many times Tiredly but with exciteet away from the noise She was surprised to find Colvin already there, twirling a stalk of purplein its scent He rose from the bench when she arrived

"With the harsh weather, everyone is indoors," he said with a frown "Did you sleep?"

"Not well," she confessed, su with a thought and set the basket down next to it "I have always been a light sleeper The slightest little noise wakes me"

"Someone dropped a platter of dishes," Colvin said "I tossed after that and finally came here to listen to the rain"

Lia withdrew his shirt and dunked it in the trough She remembered the last time she had washed one of his shirts, and the le in her chest "You see in the herb field yesterday"

"I intend to have a bush sent to rows inunique about Muirwood"

Lia scrubbed the shirt against the ribbed stones and smacked it with a cake of scented soap "Is it much different than Billerbeck Abbey, where you studied?"

"There is notup behind her He stared at the giant Abbey with a look of awe "This is the oldest Abbey in the realrandfather’s tidoe I am proud that ours is so…hu the shirt, rinsed it, and wrung it again She wanted hi, but decided to draw out the conversation "To be honest, I do not even knohere Dahoer is from there, but that is all I really know about it And that the word gargouelle is froe"