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“Marian lost the baby No one gives a daht now”

“Shit” She looked out over the mountain “Shit”

He didn’t like being jabbed about it, but there were going to be a lot of people coive whatever help they could, and they would need to be fed

Surreal drew in a breath and huffed it out “All right, then You and Uncle Saetan can baby Marian until she starts snarling at you, and Jaenelle and I will bully Lucivar”

He bristled “Don’t you think Lucivar deserves a little pa too?”

She gave hi bulliedis a kind of pa says ‘I love you’ to aa whack upside the head”

She walked into the eyrie, leaving hiender and the mystery of hers

CHAPTER 20

TERREILLE

After renting a horse at Grayhaven’s Coaching station, Ranon headed for the parts of the tohere he’d spent so a day pursuing soone all hissy cat on hiht and insisted that he come to Grayhaventoday

That wasn’t fair,Ranon scolded hiri she had been a “hissy cat” diht And rehtness in her face, the worry in her eyesSoled web only gave her a sense ofwhen so

Now that he was here, he wished he’d asked Archerr or Shaddo to come with him

This town didn’t feel right any to feel the way the towns and villages had felt for the past several generations: discouraged, resigned, wary Angry He rode through the shopping district and had the odd sense that shopkeepers were letting their s stay dirty and weren’t bothering to sweep the walks as a deliberate way to discourage the interest of some customers

Like aristos Or Queens

You don’t have to go up to the o to the places in tohere we’d shopped or visited Then listen to your heart

He could have used soes were here The woardens at theback to Grayhaven Some of the shopkeepers ca He heard the hope in their voices when they asked, and he saw the dull acceptance in their eyes when he told the in Eyota

He stopped at a tavern for a short glass of ale It was late , too early for a drink as far as he was concerned, but he’d gone in because you could usually get a feel for what the —and there were too ood sign

Why wasn’t Theran seeing any of this? Thewarnings that were so clear? Grayhaven was the capital of Dena Nehele When Cassidy left a feeeks ago, there were signs of people shaking off the years of war and the decades of abuse at the hands of twisted Queens Now shops that had been open were closed, e the walks with the same hunched wariness that had been typical of the people everywhere in Dena Nehele