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Auras

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The party went on for hours after Arlen and Renna e pavilion He had thought their consuentle, but his bride had pounced like an animal the moment the flap fell, her aura lit up with lust

My bride Renna Tanner The thought irl he ran away fro was the one he was meant for

Meant for? He snorted Spent your whole life believing there’s no Creator, no Deliverer, but you and a girl get along, and that’s proof of divine plan?

But ht as ludicrous, he could not

They stu crowd, and Arlen was amazed once more at its aura

Arlen had thought ic evil once, but it was beyond such definitions, no more evil than wind or rain or lectrics It pulsed within all living things, defining them inside and out with a wealth of information Human auras were dimmer and far reat deal of areatwards Without even realizing it, the Holloere iic with their joy, and it danced happily around the auras since he had first painted wards of sight around his eyes, but had never understood what the subtle variations of colour, brightness, and texture hadprince For an instant their minds had touched, and he had seen the world as the delance could tell him much about a person’s emotional state, and a full stare fed him a constant stream of information He knehen people spoke truth to hiht and when they would flee He could see every single eh he had to guess at the reasons

He could not see intoprinces had … yet But if he concentrated, Arlen could draw a touch ofit with their essence, and then absorb it hi them more intimately than lover and Herb Gatherer both – every scar, every ache, every feeling A firespit burn here, a cat scratch there, telling the body’s tale

Soes would flash in hise, but it was up to him to interpret the a current passing through a tree, Arlen could peel back the years s When there had been flood, and when drought When there had been fire, and when deep freeze The types of de since the nut had cracked, grasped in an instant

Sha for the with Rojer, Kendall, and his neives

Rojer’s aura was particularly interesting When the Jongleur was playing, be it his fiddle or the part in a drama, a mask fell over his aura that was ih, his young friend was an open book Ies floated around him, some dim, others distinct, all connected to Rojer with complex webs of emotion

Arlen could make out himself and Renna, as well as Amanvah, Sikvah, and Leesha Arlen could see Rojer had doubts about Renna and the e, but he’d ard, and felt no right to preach The deed was done, and as Arlen’s friend, Rojer was going to support hileur’s shoulder ‘Stand by you, too, Rojer Honest word Nothing about Renna lessens what I owe you’

Rojer blinked ‘How did you knohat I was …’

There was a flare in Amanvah’s aura as she focused on hi before he even finished speaking

For an instant, he saw i around her, most prominently her parents A between their i it is said in the Evejah that only the Deliverer can read the hearts ofA went … serene, the surface of her eentle rhythm of her breath She stared at him with no less intensity, but his ability to read her vanished