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Lia shook her head slowly, feeling grateful and confused and tired and hungry and a dozen other things all at once "The Mediu to die Why? I saw you and Ellowyn putting stones over ?"

Colvin’s face hardened "When did you see that?"

"Before dawn I realized that I would not be going with you two to Daho It happened like at other tiave you ood hand and touched the hard edge of the ring "I wanted you to remember me"

His face flushed, his eyes so intense with emotions that she blinked and discovered tears in her eyes

"How could I ever…ever forget you? When you are in ht You mean more to me than anyone else in my life Do you understand that? I am worried about o to her My duty co Ellowyn to Dahoo, I will be thinking of you I do not need this thing to reainst the soft pillows "That makes me feel much better And worse But I want you to keep it I want you to wear it in Dahoo with you…but it hurts to move"

He smiled at her tenacity "The healer said it will be soh to walk The bolt broke the bone in your leg Your hand will heal, she tells e will not be permanent The knife wound was fatal You lost a lot of blood and could not breathe But when I called you back, it started to heal The sound of your breathing has grown stronger all day"

"Have you watched ht of hi her when she was so vulnerable and unaware

He s to hold a vigil for you tonight until you awoke because I wanted to say goodbye Sowe has been tending you So has Bryn and Pasqua They helped the healer tend to you I was only allowed to see you after you’d been bathed and clothed Pasqua’s bed has been carried into the kitchen You will rest there where they can look after you night and day I ary"

She nodded slowly, still full of questions though "When are you leaving?"

"At dawn Pen-Ilyn will row us across the water"

Lia twisted her head and gave him a puzzled look

Colvin nodded "When you summoned the defenses, it dreater fro to leave when the current suddenly pulled from the other way and drew hier used were sht now All day he has been ferrying knights back and forth across the hugefull of coins if I aestow and continue to ferry for Demont until the waters recede If they recede"

Lia sain "Is his nose broken still?"

"The healer set it It is purple but it will heal"

"Was it another one of Dieyre’s lies that Deht he was dead"

"It was not a lie He truly believed De, I think Reht- north to deal with a rebellion of the Earl of Caspur He had control of all the approaches Histo trap Demont and prevent escape Demont kneas outnumbered and his men eary and Caspur’s fresh There was an Abbey in that Hundred where Denize the rights of the Abbey to safeguard the the Abbeys within his lands The Medium told him to cross the Apse Veil to Muirwood They left their horses They left the young king behind with a suard to sneak away Anyone as not aca like the kind that happen here Caspur stretched his line so that Demont would not slip away in theeach other, thinking they had stu lifted, Caspur learned that his army had nearly destroyed itself Demont’s men, meanwhile, crossed the Apse Veil to Muirwood" He paused, looking her keenly in the eye "They crossed two days ago But they did not arrive at Muirwood until this , when you sue of distance, they crossed a bridge of ti when they were needed Thelost two days unexpectedly as well as hearing the reports of their death But they defended Muirwood and have taken the reer’s soldiers into custody"