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“You’ve got a boat,” I said

“I was a mile downstream, free and clear” Snorri tossed his sword in, stepped in after it, and picked up an oar “So for aI was getting sick” He sat and took both oars “I knew I had to come back—knew the direction And then I found you”

I stood on the step The Silent Sister’s h us, the light through h him, and as Snorri and I separated, some arcane force tried to rejoin those two lines, the dark and the light We had draay fro Snorri west, and those hidden fissures started to open again, started to tear us both apart just so they could be free to run together once more I remembered what happened when they joined It wasn’t pretty

“Don’t stand there like an idiot Loose the rope and get in”

“I” The rowing boat“It doesn’t look very stable” I’ve always viewed boats as a thin plank betweenAs a sensible fellow I’d never entrusted my safety to one before, and close up they looked even ry

Snorri nodded up at the steps, up towards the gap in the river wall they led to “In a moment a man with a crossboill stand there and convince you that waiting was a mistake”

I hopped in sharp enough at that, Snorri deploying his weight to stop ed to sit down

“The rope?” he asked Shouts rang out above us, drawing closer

I pulled my knife, slashed the rope, nearly lost the knife in the river, tried again, and finally sawed at the strands until at last they gave and ere off The current took us and the wall vanished into the glooht of land

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“Are you going to be sick again?”

“Has the river stopped flowing?” I asked

Snorri snorted