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"I don’t want you fainting on et too close to all that unleashed power"

"Threaten to kneefor the rest of hed and walked ahead of him She quickly disappeared around a turn in the trail It was a narrow path, streith good-sized rocks, snaggled low brush, and it was too steep She slipped, gasped aloud, and grabbed at a root

"Be careful, dao back We’ll both be very careful Just another fifty feet"

The trail just stopped From the settled look of all the brush and rocks, there’d been an avalanche some years before They could probably climb over the rocks, but Quinlan didn’t want to take the chance "This is far enough," he said, grabbing her hand when she took another step "Nope, Sally, this is it Let’s sit here and commune with all that unleashed power"

There was no beach below, just pile upon pile of rocks, forined as the cloud fore fro beneath It was breath-taking, and Jaulls whirled and dove overhead, squawking and calling to each other

"It isn’t particularly cold today"

"No," she said "Not like last night"

"I’m in the west tower room at Thelht"

Suddenly she stood up, her eyes fixed on so, "No, no, it can’t be"

He was on his feet in an instant, his hand on her shoulder "What the hell is it?"

She pointed