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Karigan ushered Agemon and Iris inside and took up a position near the entry, dropping onto one of the benches She was so weary Agemon, on the other hand, produced a cloth fro the oblets on the altar—not that they didn’t already sparkle
Let theht It would keep them busy and out of trouble
She leaned her head against the cold, smooth stone wall and dozed off
In her dreas and queens, princes and princesses, arose from their Earthly husks on funeral slabs and swirled down the corridors Their forms seeped from crypts and coffins like forainst the lids of sarcophagi and pushed them aside
The spiritsinsubstantial, others in full royal regalia
Join us, join us, join us, they said to her
Skeleton jaws clacked at her, and the spirits swirled around her in a ragged, wisping cyclone, their voices pitched like the whine of biters in her ears
Avataaar… they whispered
Cat claws punctured her leather trousers and dug into her thighs
“Ow!”
Details returned Sore head against cool stone wall Sore hands and knees, sore everything
Tombs
To her relief, the ghosts had been a dreah her presence in the tombs was not Nor was the cat Ghost Kitty crouched on her lap, ears flat against his head He elared out the doorway of the House of Sun and Moon
Karigan rubbed her eyes and looked and heard voices A man in the livery of a castle servant held a knife to Iris’s throat, while at least two others stood nearby confronting Agemon with swords
KARIGAN HAUNTING
“Daan whispered When and how did this transpire? She detached the cat frohs and set hi beneath one of the benches Agemon must have disobeyed Brienne’s orders and slipped out while Karigan napped
“Tell us, old man,” said the intruder with the knife to Iris’s throat
“You should not be here!” Agemon cried “You have broken taboo—you are unclean The Black Shields shall be very cross with you”
The man snorted “You mean the Weapons? We took care of them”
At least Ageood sense to keep quiet about Brienne and Fastion Unless, of course, the thug e his hands in distress