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"I dreaaze "I saw it in the pictures a week ago All week, I’ve seen patterns of circles in the paintings, all red and gold Your colors"

"Coincidence," he said

She snorted quietly "Sohtsong This isn’t just about us I’ve decided to start doing a better job of things Perhaps you should take a look at who you are and what you are doing"

"Ah,said "You see, the problee is the presu other than what I am Every time I do, disaster is the result"

"Well, you now have oddess turned aalking back toward her room of supplicants "I, for one, am curious to see how you handle them"

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Vivenna awoke, sick, tired, thirsty, starving

But alive

She opened her eyes, feeling a strange sensation Comfort She was in a comfortable soft bed She sat up immediately; her head spun

"I’d be careful," a voice said "Your body is weak"

She blinked fuzzy eyes, focusing on a figure sitting at a table a short distance away, his back to her He appeared to be eating

A black sword in a silver sheath rested against the table

"You," she whispered

"Me," he said between bites

She looked down at herself She wasn’t wearing her shift anyarments Her body was clean She raised a hand to her hair, feeling that the tangles and one It was still white

She felt so strange to be clean

"Did you rape me?" she asked quietly

He snorted "A woman who’s been to Denth’s bed holds no temptation for h she didn’t knohy she cared to tell him

Vasher turned, face still fra was far less fine than her own He studied her eyes "He had you fooled, didn’t he?"

She nodded

"Idiot"

She nodded again

He turned back to his ," he said "I paid her to bathe you, dress you, and change your bedpan I never touched you"

She frowned "Whathappened?"

"Do you reht on the street?"

"With your sword?"

He nodded

"Vaguely You saved me"

"I kept a tool out of Denth’s hands," he said "That’s all that really matters"

"Thank you anyway"

He was silent for a few moments "You’re welcome," he finally said

"Why do I feel so ill?"

"Tramaria," the hlands Insect bites spread it You probably got it a feeeks before I found you It stays with you, if you’re weak"

She put a hand to her head

"You probably had a pretty bad time lately," Vasher noted "What with the dizziness, the deer"

"Yes," she said

"You deserved it" He continued to eat

She didn’t ood, but she’d apparently been fed during the fevers, for she wasn’t as fary "How long was I unconscious?" she asked

"A week," he said "You should sleep so to do with me?"

He didn’t reply "The BioChroave the "Yes"

He glanced at her, raising an eyebrow

"No," she ad"