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Unable to stop herself, Lia pulled the blade away from his throat "Tell hi for hi you And he will open the borders for the kishion to enter"

"No maston can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value rity is never worth so much as e have parted with our all to keep it Sadly, many will part with theirs for a trifle"

- Gideon Penman of Muirwood Abbey

CHAPTER NINETEEN:

Irrevocare Sigil

For nearly seven years, Lia had carried in her boso the stor the Aldere how life had the tendency to repeat itself over and over, roles changing but the story being the same At the cloister she had learned that the Aldermaston was in the kitchen, so she hurried there instead She knew Colvin ht with Pareigis’ knights lent her a strength she had never known before The training had worked Without help she had disarer than her, and interrogated one of the in the act of pulling a o limp with a well-placed blow In her rin of approval

As she stoined hoild she looked, all brown and gray with led clu wildly with the events of the afternoon, like sothis way and that in the air, and she was unable to rein in any of them She was haunted by the look of contee – a Daho at her Yet another – Reo inside Lia cracked and she saw herself rushing the girl, stoh Then sheriff Al silver as he whispered about her parentage, killed at the battle of Maseve How she wished she had known back then all she had learned being a hunter

Thunder booh wildly as the ain He was dead in the Bearden Muir because the Aldermaston had sent hiht painfulwith a storainst the wall of the kitchen, shivering and soaked

"Oh no," she whispered Already his head snapped up, hearing the noise of her approach and saw her His face looked ashen with nervousness

"Lia?" he asked tre towards her

"I must speak to the Aldermaston," she said brusquely "I cannot talk to you now, Duerden"

He looked crestfallen "I…I see Another tih, he stepped away from her path and started back towards the cloisters She watched his wilting with a surge of remorse, but she could not…she would not want to listen to hi

"Lia?" he called after a moment, as her hands found the handle She looked over her shoulder at hi Hisin a frown, but his eyebrows looked concerned "Are you all right? Can I help you?"

She stood for a e to kiss his cheek and thank hi she felthappened But this is a probleain she was tempted to reveal rounds One of theht have hit hiusted with me when I told him how I felt I am soaked and wet and tired And how are you this fine day?

"I will not keep you," he said, biting his lip and wiping rain from his eyes, and then started back towards the cloister

Lia swung open the kitchen door and entered There was Pasqua, rubbing her shoulder with obvious pain and the Alder in low tones Siara Healer was there ell,up so supper and both glanced over at her and stopped, gawking at her strange appearance There was Ed on a barrel, and he also rose when she entered