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“Ifevered herself “Lala? There you are The bowl, please”

The boasof the glaze stained a rusty color The vessel had always been used for the purpose for which Grandmother now employed it It had been handed down her e of how to tie the knots Lala set the bowl in place

“Good girl,” Grandmother said She crouched beside Jeremiah He ive back and ive him, allow hi man a kindness—he now could sin no further and perhaps had not lost all chance of gaining entrance to paradise She thrust her knife into the artery of his neck and held the bowl to catch his blood

Captain Irotesque scene of the bleeding of Jere head “I’ve news for you, but thought it better to wait till this task was completed”

Grandlanced over her shoulder at him “Go ahead”

He nodded “I’ve had word that the parchment has been located”

Grandrinned “Hoonderful!”

“Yes Events have been set in motion in Sacor City just as you wished, and we should obtain the parchment very soon”

Saddened as Grandmother was by Jeremiah’s betrayal and the necessity of his death, Immerez’s news buoyed her spirits

It also pleased her that Jereo to waste, but would aid her cause Her ordinary looking boould keep the blood warrew even as crimson liquid filled the bowl to the brim

THE BLUE DRESS

Tall grasses whipped against the Green Rider’s legs as he ran He cast terrified glances over his shoulder, his breaths harsh and ragged, and punctuated by the thud of hoofbeats behind hiround Desperately he tore at grass stalks to pull hiht

And still the hoofbeats followed at a steady,inexorably, unrelentingly behind him

A strangled cry of triumph erupted from the Rider’s throat as safety appeared just ahead He hurled hi at his captain’s feet

“Well, that didn’t go very well, did it?” Laren Mapstone said

On the other side of the fence, the source of Ben’s terror gazed down at hi brown eyes and snorted