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Dustfinger couldn’t help s, and Farid returned his sain?" He looked as anxious as if he feared the White Woer, sain "No, not for a while, I think"

Farid He’d ask the fire to write that name in his heart as well Roxane Brianna

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CHAPTER 80

OMBRA

When the Black Prince took the children back to Ombra, snow lay on the battlements above the city wall, but the women threers they had made out of scraps of fabric cut froain, but now his paas laid on a book with blank pages, and his one He had fled froht and his sister’s arms, and Violante had returned to take possession of the city and prepare it for the return of its children

Meggie was standing with Elinor, Darius, and Fenoglio in the square outside the castle gates as the hters, and Violante, speaking from the battle thelio whispered to her, as Violante had provisions froliness will fall in love with the Black Prince someday After all, he was the Bluejay before your father took the part, and Violante was more in love with the role than the lio! He was just the saone back to his mountains, he had completely restored the old man’s self-confidence

The Bluejay had not come to Ombra Mo and Resa had stayed behind at the faro back to where he ca players’ songs" They were singing them everywhere already: how the Jay and the Fire-Dancer, all by themselves, had defeated the Adderhead and the Piper with all their men

"Please, Battista," Mo had said, "why don’t you, at least, write a song telling the true story? About the people who helped the Jay and the Fire-Dancer About the swift and the boy!"

Battista had prolio only shook his head

"No one will sing it, Meggie People don’t like their heroes to need help, particularly not froht Perhaps that meant Violante would have a hard tih all its people were cheering her today Jacopo stood beside his mother He looked more like a small copy of his father every day, but all the sarandfather She shuddered to think how ready Jacopo had been to deliver the Adderhead up to Death even though that had been the saving of Mo

Anotherruled the country on the far side of the forest, and she, too, had a son and was taking care of the throne for hiie knew that Violante expected war, but no one wanted to think of that today This day belonged to the children who had co players sang about Farid’s fire, the tree full of nests, and the giant who had so ht moment

"I’llthe trees, and Meggie felt the saet how the Inkworld was reflected on his skin, or how light-footed he hen he strode away, so gentle in such a big body

"Meggie!" Farid h the woue?"

"With my mother," she replied--and was surprised to find that her heart beat no faster than usual at the sight of hied?

Farid frowned "Yes, yes," he said, "and Dustfinger’s with his ain