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"I’ll be fine"

Rhys sleam in his eye "I think you’ll be more than fine"

She opened the door and walked out into the glohite of the street It was cold--according to Orsala--even for Oslo It usually didn’t reach the lowest temperatures until later in the winter

"Just lucky for uess," sheto " She heard the co had tried to explain to her beep in their wake before she and Rhys started walking

"Do you have a car?"

"It’s at Max’s They dropped me off earlier We can catch a taxi up the street It’s not far"

They walked in silence, the air frosting their breath as Ava tucked her scarf closer around her neck So in the shower It was al The skin along her spine and neck craith energy It wasn’t painful, just an awareness of the o away She wondered if she would feel them less and less as the years went by Maybe, if she wasn’t around other Irin, she wouldn’t notice them as much

Rhys walked in silence Suspicious, she opened her mind His inner voice was a confused jue of the Old Language was growing

Stop

Pain

Malachi

Mate

Malachi

Malachi

Malachi

Her soul welled in grief at the sound of his nahts circled until she locked down her mind with a fehispered words

"What?" He looked down

"Sorry You were… loud"

He blinked at her, startled "And you used a spell to shut hts now?"