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"Shortly after our return frorown up in, on the far edge of htfully "You knew he lived out there before Ysabel dragged hiers hadn’t fared as well as the people in ht and wanted to help them rebuild I haven’t heard from him since and just assuuards were still hovering around, waiting for orders I gestured to one of the her here" When he was gone, I turned back to Roland and Dorian "There iel wouldn’t do this"
"He did it before," pointed out Roland
"Yeah, when the land was blighted and his people were starving," I countered "Everything’s fixed now"
"Well," said Dorian reasonably, "not everything None of us are in quite the sa leanly for a while, and I assulanced between us "Leanly enough that the boyfrom the human world?"
I started to deny it but reconsidered As Roland had said, Pagiel had done all this before Maybe the Oak Land wasn’t in the saiel cared about were still suffering Pagiel had ht and had too s on the ed He’d only stopped his actions because I’d brought him with me to the Yew Land
Jas thrilled that she’d been suhtened when she saw Roland since he usually brought her little luxuries from the human world
"Jasiel?"
She looked startled by ot back He was supposed to get in touch but never did"
"Youthe truth?"
Hurt shone on her face, and a bit of that old dark teroe’d established a lot of trust, and
"I’m sorry," I said before she could answer "I don’tI just need to be sure you don’t know anything that’s going on with hihtly pacified A note of bitterness laced her next words "I wish I had heard from him I don’t knohat his problem is"
"From the sounds of it," I said, "he may actually have a few problems"
We told her what had happened, and I studied her face carefully as she listened Her shock was genuine; she’d been telling the truth Unlike me, however, her initial response wasn’t a denial or insistence that there was a mistake
"He talked about it a lot," she said with dismay "While ere on the road All about the wealth huacy--you know, fro ones walked the earth He never wanted to hurt anyone, but he didn’t think it was right that we’re denied the surplus in that world"
"A classic Storer to serve you, Eugenie"