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“Except for the golden dragon”

He didn’t comment I knew full well it was because he didn’t think he’d ht he’d die in this half-life as his world fell down around him

I was not going to let that happen A long tio I’d set out to cure the deic I would save Nyfain, too I just had to figure out how There was a way I had a huge library at ather inforether

Not now, though Noere living for theso far I wanted to keep it going

So I let him take my hand in silence and lead me from the room

“I’d planned to take a turn around the ballroohts?”

“My legs are wobbly, and…”

“Hit ?”

“Leala said the deht to harvest the everlass Whatever suppresses the deht make the everlass et the recovery time down a bit”

He laughed softly and entwined our fingers, bringing me down the hallway and toward one of the rear exits Loud esting the parties had broken out after all, but I didn’t have any desire to play voyeur or put on a public display tonight No ht’ve been watching, at any rate

The night was ht above us Nyfain carried the tray for me, and once ere in the field, he helped me pick the leaves Afterward, he took ain We walked side by side through the plants, in different rows but close enough to touch, thein around us The moment was perfect and sublime, and heat constricted in on

“Why is gardening and healing considered a woman’s activity?” I asked softly as we stopped in the field, still holding hands “Why did only women do it?”

He turned and faced doms Maybe my father, or his father, or his father’s father, was just bad at it and they decided that was because they had a dick”