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"Li’at’dano? The centaur shaht off another convulsion of grief "Neither did I I sense in one"

"Gone?"

"Dead Devoured Gone utterly"

Hanna choked, finding no words She pressed her hands into the thick carpet to steady herself The air lay cold within the chamber A curl of smoke from the altar fire spun upward and out the sray sameness of the Other Side, a place Hanna could never walk but which all Kerayit shamans had visited in their spirit trance--or so Breschius had told her Sorgatani never spoke of it

"I aatani

Hanna sat beside her on the bed and held her Although they sat this way for a long tiatani did not sleep

In the ainst the brightness The clouds seeher and thinner and whiter than before

"I believe the sun will break through," said Rosvita, coons were made ready in the courtyard of Goslar The nuns of St Valeria mustered under the cold eye of Sister Acella, who had laid a vow of silence on every sister under her command in protest of their re order Sergeant Ingo signaled to Rosvita that his troops were ready to go

Servants loaded provisions, and the steward handed a cache ofMother Obligatia had been repaired and refitted It now held two pallets stretched lengthwise, one for the old abbess and the other for Captain Thiadbold, as feverish and weak, sohed as the horses were led out of the stables "In another ti But any traveler alone on the road is not safe"

"It was never safe for Eagles," said Hanna

"Less so now It is those darts I fear As youtoward Thiadbold His eyes were shut Sister Diocletia had shaved off his red hair to reduce lice and fleas whose presence ht pester him to distraction as he healed If he healed

"Be patient," said Rosvita