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Mara looked down at his black horse I finally have my own Vala But I can’t call her that I’ll have to think of another nas Nice He looked up to see the guide several feet away, and tried to move his horse with a kick, and then wobbled about in the saddle, but it didn’t budge “Come on, you We are supposed to be friends Follow him”

The guide twisted in his saddled and made a double click noise Mara’s horse walked That’s how

Sevens Helain, Silas

Mara snapped awake His neck ached fro forwards as he’d slept on the horse The red sun had just come up, and the clouds in the sky were yellow and pink A rope linked the two horses together as they walked through a field of long grass that hissed in the wind

Mara clicked at the horse and tapped at its sides with his heels It sped up He pulled on the reins to slow it as he ca?”

“Ugh,” the guide said

Mara shrugged, “Where,” he pointed at the guide and then himself, “are we,” then pointed in the direction they travelled and shrugged again, “going?”

The guide se tone

Mara shrugged again “What?”

The guide slid off his horse He knelt in a patch of mud, smoothed out a square with his hand, then drew a castle with a circle around it and a square box above that “Da Wron”

Da Wron? A castle?

The guide drew a head with x’s for eyes and an unhappy mouth, then a few houses inside the circle around the castle

“Is that… Talon?”

The guide nodded “Ugh” Then stood and climbed back on his horse

I don’t want to go back there Mara shook his head “No”