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"Good place for a trap So others cannot get to thepeninsula"

"Why?"

"Anyone ants to come to the house will have to walk on either this path or one other"

"Why?"

Ignoring her "uestions, he began shoveling "So tell me about Carrow - "

"You really can't swim? What's your job? You look like a firehed "I want a dog"

She ht her breath Malkoa note of sternness into his tone "I want you to answer some "uestions about Carrow Does she have a ot tons of boyfriends They're always co around the coven"

He clenched the shovel handle, just preventing hi it to dust I will put their heads on pikes

"Crow's one of thea sly look about her, Ruby said, "You think she's pretty, too"

"She is" -beyond coh," he said "Do others think well of her?" Or was she as hated as he'd been?

"Everybody loves her because she's fun Everybody wants to be friends with her"

Malko for hundreds of males, was certain any one of them would want to befriend her

He stabbed the shovel down "How long have you known her?"

"I've known Crow forever She's always bringing s," she said "But she's rutterless"

"What does that an to trickle up from the botto to love this place of plenty

When he was young he'd wanted three things A home that no one could ever force him to leave As much food and water as he could ever enjoy To be noble and respected like Kallen

Here he could satisfy at least two of those desires

"It irl said, then added proudly, "Not until ether Carron parents had treated her so callously that the idea ofa child in need called to her Could he hate her for this?

For that irl? She was seven years old Roughly an punishing me

"What happens when you return home?" he asked her "Who will provide for you?" When her brows drew together at the "uestion, he said, "Hoill you buy things?"

"Carrow makes a fortune off her spells"

A fortune He'd known she'd coe that she had wealth in her world - whereas he would not

"We're going to get a pad"

"A pad?"