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"You can have one e a walk"
"That would be good, but if not, I’ve got you"
I wrapped s I wanted to say, but I didn’t kno He’d crossed half of the country, broken into an iainst all odds There were no words to explain to him how I felt about that
"I love you," I told him There Nice and simple "I knew you would find "
And he wouldn’t He would’ve kept going until he found me I had no doubt of that
He reached into his jacket and handedI unfolded the fabric Slayer’s other half I ih’s eye It was that or start crying, and I would not cry in Mishmar
"Can it be repaired?" Curran asked quietly
"No" I’d broken the tip off before, once, and Slayer regrew it, but this break was right in theabout it e I stroked the blade It was like a part of ed to fix it somehow, the blade would always have a weak spot"
"I’ot careless"
"Don’t worry, I plan to get under his skin, too" He curled his fingers as he did when he had claws "He won’t like it"
We sat quietly for a long ht your other saber," he said
"The Cherkassy?"
Curran nodded
"Can I have it?"
He reached over and pulled it frohtly curvedit Not the saed the container of food toward ain, Your Furriness?"
"Of course," he said "I love you"
It h teleports," I said between bites "He wears an eency vial of water around his neck He breaks it and the water wets his skin, he says a poord, and it teleports hio ethereal for a few seconds from start to finish He teleports only as a last resort--if the tech hits during transit, he’s toast"
"Good to know"
"Was Gene’s invitation a setup?"
Curran shrugged "I don’t know But e get back, I’uest at the Keep" The way he said "guest" didn’t bode well for Gene
"What happened after I left?"
Curran leaned against an overturned chair "I chased Hugh across the field, but he teleported before I could get to hiot his horse You want it?"
"His Friesian? No thanks It looks pretty, but they don’t iant donkey?"
He blinked "You what?"
"A giant black-and-white donkey She was like twelve feet tall and bad tempered I left her in the Keep’s stables I’d rented her from a livery stable, so we may have to buy her now, because of all the tiled with it for a e side effects"
"No, I was there," Robert said, his eyes still closed "I’ve seen Cuddles Long ears"
Curran’s eyes widened
"If we get out of here, I’d like to keep her," I told hiet you a whole herd of giant donkeys"
"That’s the strangest bribe I’ve ever heard of," Robert said
"I don’t want a herd I just want one" I ate h’s Friesian?"
"I don’t know Hell, Ion a leash"
I laughed "You hate horses"
"No," Curran said "I don’t trust them There’s a difference"
"So what else happened after I went poof?"