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"WhatShould we follow them back to our country?"

"No I hter with me"

"What is your plan?"

"I’ Mask, always alert, his dark gaze sweeping in all directions "Look how those clouds are co down from the north"

"Stor in, and how black its face was, and how high the dark clouds had piled one upon the next over the hills

"Too late," said Sharp Edge "A bundle of masks comes to intercept us"

A score of roup at a full run, ready to cut her off if she tried to escape

"Noill you do?" Sharp Edge asked The four otiate And hope they possess no poisoned arrows"

They olden wheel, which spun in the brisk wind blowing down off the foothills The clouds had not quite broken over the hills, but they would at any ed; the hair on her arled, and her eyes smarted

There were many witnesses, but the only ones whoHer own attendants stood back ten paces, waiting for the signal they had agreed on

"I did not send for you," Feather Cloak said, eyes narroith displeasure "How and why are you come?"