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They held

Facing the center of the cavern, she called her wings

They flared and faded so quickly that it left afteriain, but it was no use The undercurrents of aether still thru: Li’at’dano’s power calling to her froateway

Had it always taken two to open the gateway of the burning stone? Was there a thread woven between one and the other? Did she needsurely and slowly fro tears and scratched her itching shoulders and allowed herself one burst of frustrated overpowering thwarted despairing fury, not a screae that had obliterated the shore

"Liath"

Just like that, she snapped alert In likean enemy Any creature does She was clear and eain

It was like an hallucination, because there was no possible way that Hugh of Austra should be speaking to her in this place at this time when she was i to the Ashioi

But it was his voice, and it was obvious from his tone that he knew she was there

When she did not reply, he went on

"I am a prisoner of the Ashioi"

This comment bestirred her, because for so "Not so deep in prison as I am, it appears, since you are there, and I ahtQueen Adelheid"

He paused again, and she played along "What cause had you to flee Adelheid? Before, as I recall the story, you were her ally"

"No longer Adelheid blames ht believe you innocent of any share in Henry’s death?"

"Believe what you will Adelheid desired to kill me"