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"Grey House Wizards?" I hadn’t heard that before

"They are the finest and most powerful of their kind," Erland said "Different from the Karathians, as we dabble in some of the darker spells at ti on the boundary between the light and dark worlds, as it is"

"Do you dabble in the darker spells?" I wasn’t sure how I felt about that

"Never to cause an unwarranted death," he sainst my principles and many who associate with s of that nature Therefore, I stay within the neutral area when it becoht"

"Well, that’s a relief," I said

Kifirin walked over and stood next tomy conversation with Erland Morphis Erland offered me a smile that held sadness

Do not give any e or indication, Kifirin sent s will proceed as they should

My heart weeps because there is no way to save her, Erland Morphis replied

Do you think that pain has not been stirred thoroughly in entle kiss on Lissa’s teo

Chapter 7

We left Erland Morphis standing in the arboretu at the spot where we’d stood barely a blink before Kifirin and I now perched on the edge of a volcano Heat was rising fro

"I have calo," he said, his dark eyes gazing out over the caldera

"Do a lot of dae?"

"Sory at the tiot your panties in a bunch?" I asked

"It is not so secret, huh?"

"Yes Unfortunately"

"What do you call the volcano? Is it named after you too?" I smiled up at Kifirin

"No, avilepha It is called Baetrah, which means Fire Mountain"

"Roff said that the comesuli come here to ask you for favors"

"They still do Sometimes I consider their requests" He’d said consider He didn’t say grant I didn’t push it--s you weren’t supposed to know "The High Demons come here when they tire of their life," Kifirin went on "If they throw theive up their lives While they are in full Thifilathi, the fire cannot harm them It is the way they were made"

"You did that, if I recall correctly," hed "I did that I h Demons At times, I wish I had created them with better memories, or with more focus toward their responsibilities Coo"

Kifirin dropped uesthouse, seconds after we’d left it "That didn’t take long," Winkler drawled Sometimes, Texas comes out in his voice Sometimes Kifirin left me there with both bottles of wine after a quick kiss He just disappeared, as he always does "How does he do that?" Winkler asked, rising and co toGavin rose, too, probably to et aith toospace," I said

"That’s a theory that has been kicked around a bit, with variations on how it could actually be accoenius Winkler was present, it seems "Do you knoorks?"

"I have no idea, you’re asking the wrong person," I said "Maybe you should ask hiain"

"How did we miss this?" Griffin sat at a table inside a Falchani bar; Kifirin sat across from him Two cups of untouched rice wine sat on the table between them "All the Possibilities pointed in another direction Now the Absolute shows up and it is disastrous" Griffin had fingers laced through his thick brown hair and he wanted to tug it out by the roots, he was so frustrated and upset