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Glee tapped a finger on the table, thoughtful "Couldize?ncea they hide even from the Three?"

"No Not if they united But the Three have had their own problems to worry about for some ti new occurred to me "And the Three could be why none of us reht have ht irritably

"-- forget"

"Why would she do that?" Eye "That makes no sense"

"No," said Nemmer softly Sheus -- nowhere near ainst the deurations that could result a the children of the Three "It ri us And she would do it, if any of her children were a threat to the rest After the de to takeothers, and if that child’s survival depended for so of its existence …" She shook her head "It’s possible She ht have even created some new realm to house him, apart froe of that child with her"

I thought of Kahl’s intimation Enefa is dead now I re

"Where’s this elontid’s other parent? Most of us wouldn’t just leave a child to rot in so our kind is too precious"

"It has to be a godling," Ahad mused "If it were Itean to shape the word norlare on him to make Itempas proud, and he amended himself --"niah, like the rest of you"

"I a herself

"Whatever," Ahad replied, and I was suddenly glad the platter’s paring knife was out of Kitr’s reach Hopefully Ahad would find his nature soon; he wasn’t going to last long as died in the War," said Glee, and we all sobered as we realized what shehorrified "To be raised in exile, forgotten, orphaned … Did this Kahl even kno to find us? How long was he alone? I can’t iine it"

I could The universe had been much emptier once There had been no word for loneliness back then, in my true childhood, but all three of my parents -- Nahadoth in particular -- had worked hard to protect me from it If Kahl had lacked the sas to an unpleasant degree," said Ahad, sighing and rubbing his eyes I felt the same "Froh the High Northers and Kahl are working at cross-purposes He’s using their diods, for so the same art to create masks that so the Ara it to cast suspicion on the northerners," I said, re the dreaun, he had said then It was the oldest of tricks, to sow dissension between groups that had coreater mischief, too I conte The Arauarantees that their enemies will strike decisively, if and when they ever do" I thought of Usein Darr, proudly stating that she would never kill just a few Arah Northers wouldn’t bother with assassins and a lowblood here, a highblood there They’d bring an army and try to destroy the whole fa an army at all," said Neht of Usein Darr’s pregnancy and that of her guardswoman, and the woman in Sar-enna-ne solid food yet I thought of the children I’d seen there -- belligerent, xenophobic, barely ual, and every one of them four or five years old at the most Darr was fa, the wo to suit their constant raiding and intertribal wars Their war crop, they called it, riculture In the years preceding a war, every woman under thirty tried her best to make a child or two The warriors would nurse the babes for a few days, then hand the also recently borne children, would simply nurse two or three, until all the children could be weaned and handed over to grandht knowing that their replace up safe, should they fall in battle