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This time he knew the way to Samorty's house.
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There were stories, but nobody could tell Whandall what was beyond the forest where redwoods were pillars big enough to support the sky, big enough to replace a dozen houses.
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Over there .
For both of us.
There were different guards when he got to the gate.
Those boys were all bulkier than he was.
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Behind him! Whandall jumped, but it was only Serana the cook.
Whandall pointed vaguely west.
Shanda grinned.
I don't know, Qirinty said.
Well, go tell them I'm here.
The charred remains had come down and been carried away.
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Rich.
Her face tell a bit.
Lord.
Then-that's the sea? he asked.
Yes, that's him, Shanda said.
Wanshig nibbled his lip, considering.
You'd win that wager, Samorty said.
Are they still looking for Lordkin to talk to?
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Waterman raised the sword .
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They walk in pairs too, Whandall said, remembering.
But a gift would persuade Wess not to forget her promise or keep it badly.
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Did she get a good dinner?
You burn down your city, the kin-less rebuild, and everyone thinks it won't happen without the Lords.
You all right? Wanshig asked.
Sorry.
No Lordkin there, Miracos said.
Instead they lay looking at stars.
Afterward Whandall went with the other boys to watch the loggers cut-ling redwoods for the rebuilding.
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Their clothing was good but drab and they were dressed nearly alike.
Serpent's Walk wasn't just this region of the city.
They'd beaten him half senseless before Shastern turned around, saw what was happening, and came running.
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Why doesn't it rain?
A man and woman together might accept that.
Can I see your tattoos?
Samorty clapped his hands.
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The Barbar Mountains remain.
The privateers must have thought we were crazy.
Not Lord Pelzed, he said.
The house was nearly a hundred yards from the wall, two stories tall, square and low with thick adobe walls, as large as the Placehold.
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You say Pothefit.
It was rounded and almost featureless, and the ghosts already around him made shadows to interfere with what approached.
Don't tell anyone.
You bow to the redwood before you cut it.
But this wizard had brought water once, and he was welcome here now.
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Everyone knew about Pelzed's tea.
Now, how far from the wall before the chaparral gets really nasty?
The fountain and stream invited him.
Yes, sir-
Is it magic, Lord?
All over in an hour.
Whandall said, I know how woodsmen live.
But the forest fascinated Whandall.
They were named for things or for skills, and they spoke their family names, where a Lordkin never would.
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It takes two days each way, Whandall whispered.
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Halite.
Magic wears out.
Whandall nodded.
That's as it may be, Serana said.
Their clothing was good but drab and they were dressed nearly alike.
They ate a dozen tiny apples and, in a field of high yellow grass, threw the cores at each other.
I'm on watch tonight.
Where did they go?
Tras shrugged uncomfortably.
This not Condigeo.
Quintana ignored her.
Who? Qirinty asked.
Loggers carried axes, and long pole with blades at the ends.
The women tried to keep the men away from us.
Usually they didn't hit him if he guessed the right answer, but sometimes they hit him anyway.
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You will have to forgive me.
Pelzed's house had a fenced-in garden and there were always kinless working in it.
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No one came out of the house.
There.
If they don't?
But here it was just a little red rash.
Chapter 5
When I was a girl, we helped each other.
the branch of a tree eons dead, by its four inward-curving hands.
Foreigner, Wanshig said.
That looked out on a smaller interior courtyard crisscrossed with clotheslines and drying clothes, more rope than Whandall had ever seen in one place.
Whandall tried to creep past him.
That must have taken a long time, and no one had bothered to fix it.
The cups were chasing each other in a loop, and now he'd added a third cup.
How can we stop it? Qirinty asked.
Yes, Jerreff, and long ago the kinless were warriors, Chanthor said.
What does a stepfather do?
The vine can kill you.
Huh? Whandall, my lad.
Don't you? It's simple.
Another to see what we can gather from Bull Pizzle.
You all right? Wanshig asked insane clown posse
Whandall jumped up, startled.
Not easy, Qirinty laughed.
Fire god, after all: why not?
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