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"Do?"

"To cause him to put you there"

At this, fury lanced downI ith my friends when this Nypri of yours attacked us I was kidnapped and brought here against my will And my friends…" I almost choked as I realized "For all I know, they’re still in that awful place"

To my surprise, Jont ht If they aren’t blasphe theo to the baths?"

Jont tookslowly since I had no walking stick to help e floor obstacles Meanwhile, I mulled over the tidbits of inforht call their new ht use strange hts seeh-handed ways

Which made me wonder why the Order hadn’t yet broken thes; there was a certain praght Ite to the layfolk What if the Lights began to build their own White Halls, collect their own offerings, deploy their own Order-Keepers? That would violate every tenet of the Bright The Lights’ very existence invited chaos

What made even less sense was that the Arameri allowed it Their clan’s founder, Shahar Arameri, had once been His most favored priestess; the Order was their mouthpiece I could not see how it benefitted theht: maybe the Arameri don’t know

I was distracted from this e entered an open room filled arm humidity and the sound of water The bath chauidedarea; I could s about Maro custo why she cared I explored and found a shelf bearing soap, fresh sponges, and a wide bowl of stea water Hot--a treat I pulled offthe shelf’s edge, then sat down to scrub htlord destroyed the Maroland," she said, and then gasped "Oh, darkness--I’e "Mentioning it won’t ain" I found a flask beside it, which I opened and sniffed Shaent, not ideal for Maroneh hair, but it would have to do

"Well, yes, but… to remind you of such a horror…"

"It happened to et--but there’s edy" I rinsedto her "Which way is the soak?"

She took e wooden tub The bottom was metal, heated by a fire underneath I had to use steps built into the side to clih at least it sht--

Enough of that, I toldof tears You can’t do hiet out of here

Jont caainst the side of the tub I wished she would go away, but I supposed part of her role was to act as uide

"The Maroneh have always honored Ite the Three, just like we Aods Isn’t that right?"

Her phrasing warned me immediately I had odlings had co, because--until recently--I had assued His ht He’d wanted His children in the mortal realm Of course, more devout Iteht Lord did not change His"No I’ve h, and so Paitya Nemmer, maybe Kitr--well, no, she didn’t like me Definitely not Lil

Shiny? Yes, I had once called hiht; he would not say the sa up in consternation "But… they’re not human" She said it the way one would describe an insect, or an animal