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“I don’t know”
“You’re upset, and rightly so” Ranon took a deep breath and let it out slowly He couldn’t force her to stay, but he was sure if he could get her to Eyota, he would buy enough time to convince her that there were people who didn’t care if a face was pretty or not when the woman behind that face was special “Come witha decision Please”
She called in a handkerchief and sniffled into it “Should I leave a note? It’s proper to inform the Steward and Master of the Guard”
She sounded so lost, so wounded
He kneas proper As the Master’s second-in-command, he should inform Talon at the very least But if he involved anyone else in the court right now,here—and the next tih to pack her things or leave a note They’d find out about it when Yaslana landed on their doorstep de answers
“No,” he said “No one needs to knohere you are Not yet”
He hadn’t convinced her, and he didn’t knohat else to say But he could think of one thing to do
Using Craft, he closed the lids on her trunks—and vanished them
Cassidy stared at the empty floor “You took my trunks”
“I did” Getting histo bend stone, but he did it Or close enough “I’ll give thehouse”
She studied him
“What?” he asked
She sniffled into the handkerchief once more, then vanished it “For a moment there, you sounded like Lucivar”
He decided to take that as a coet out of here”
“You’ll talk to Gray?”
“I will I hope you won’t be upset if he decides to join you”
“Do you think he would?”
Oh, Cassie Are you hurting soI really do”
Ranon and Cassidy slipped out of the house, wrapped in an Opal sight shield to lessen the nuht be able to detect her He trusted her to go down to the gate while he went to the stables to get a horse—praying to the Darkness that she didn’t walk onto the landing web, catch the Rose Wind, and run to the Keep Riding double to the Coaching station, they rented a sone with theenerous tip to watch the horse—and not ask questions
Riding the Opal Winds, switching from radial to tether lines whenever needed, they finally reached the landing web on the northern end of his hoe
And through the whole of the journey, Cassidy never said one word
Grandfather, Ranon called as soon as he dropped the Coach fro web He could handle a s Craft and power to hold one steady as it skimmed above the road was an untested skill Grandfather!
Ranon? Yairen sounded muddled Then the voice on the psychic thread sharpened Ranon?
I need help He could picture his grandfather pushing his over the side of the bed After all, anyone in their right mind asn’t deht Cassidy There’s been some trouble
Is she wounded?
The genuine concern in Yairen’s voice told Ranon that he’d ht choice Not her body, but her heart is wounded
Gray?
No It’sco to leave us, Grandfather I convinced her to come here instead