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“You are a good man, Sadrick I do not believe all that’s said of you”

“And what’s that then? That I bugger goats? All true”

Silas laughed

“Sod off then, Duris You’ve got a long journey ahead of you”

“Always a pleasure, Sadrick”

Sadrick turned back to the forge and stuffed the sword in the coals

Silas and Mara headed for the Blood Plain

A thin dusty trail wound through the hip-height sin grass The red fleshy tips swayed in unison as far as the eye could see “What do you think?” Silas said

“About what?”

Silas could still remember the first time he’d been here and how taken back he’d been by the plain’s colour “You’ve seen sin grass before?”

“No”

They say those that eat it gothat smells like a dead rat is beyond me”

Mara shrugged

Bloody kid

“Are we going there now… the castle?” Mara said