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“One of ourissues,” the captain continued, “is our lack of knowledge, or rather, our loss of knowledge concerning the arcane arts and ancient craft, such as that used to construct the D’Yer Wall Why or hoe lost it, who can say?” She shrugged “If certain knowledge were to fall into the hands of the ene that docuuard them There is a chance, however, that one docuen told Garth he had a dies who helped build the wall, a log of sorts that uardians and begin restoring the wall”
“You believe this book is in Selium?”
Captain Mapstone sighed “We don’t know Chances are it no longer exists at all, but if it does, the one person whoabout it is the Golden Guardian”
“Ah” The Golden Guardian, Aaron Fiori, was Estral’s father He was, in a sense, the lord-governor of Sacoridia’s arts, history, and culture, and he oversaw the school of Seliuhthe countryside collecting stories and songs, playingto the school Actual day-to-day ement of the city and school was left to the lord-mayor and the dean
“Lord D’Yer is already having his people turn their archival collections upside down for the hundredth time,” Captain Mapstone said, “and Dakrias Brown and his clerks will be doing the same here”
Karigan s’s newest chief ad, she didn’t envy hihost or two
“It may be that the book is under so added, “which is why it has not coht before If Lord Fiori can search for it with this in e directly to Lord Fiori, personally written by ency of the matter And if he is on one of his travels, then I suppose you will have to approach Dean Crosley”
There was a knock upon the door and the king’s secretary, Cus, poked his head in “Pardonyou in the throne room”
The king nodded and stood, all three Riders rising with hier an ethereal being of light, but an ordinary ain “May your journey be a safe one, Karigan,” he said “And may it prove successful”
Karigan could not aze “Thank you, sire,” sheshut behind him
She tore her gaze fro her closely Then with a blink of her hazel eyes, the captain shifted her attention to Garth
“You an’s other errands and I’m sure you’ve much to catch up on now that you’re back”
“Thank you,” Garth said On his way out, he squeezed Karigan’s shoulder and said, “We’ll talk later”