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"My father’s ale? You can drink s of smoke after we’ve burned an army fort down"

"You’ve beco sarcastic?"

"Not at all Even I can’t drink s out, it just burns mine" He shook his head, stared at her a estured to her shoulder and the brand burned into her aro "I just assu fro of ale "What else do you think you got froth, but Muicks not used when I was born"

"I don’t understand"

"When a Nolwenn is about to have a girl, she perforicks she’ll be born with"

"Direct them where?"

"I don’t know Maybe to her soul or whatever Anyway, my mother was unable to do this with ht have had dissipated and instead becauess it makes sensebut it doesn’t explain Annwyl, and she’s as strong asexplains Annwyl" He placed the bottle on the table "But I’od or Magicks that can fight that"

"Very true" She held up herto hers "To kin"

They each drank deep When Izzy lowered her , she wiped the back of her lanced at Éibhear "What do you think?"

He didn’t speak, just shook his head

"You all right?"

Another head shake

Izzy reached across the table and touched his hand "What is it?"

"I think I’ve gone blind," he finally gasped and coughed

Laughing now, Izzy took thefrom Éibhear and poured the rest of the ale into her own "Yeah Right You were going to get "

Chapter 17

They sat on his Uncle Bram’s table, one of the bottles of ale polished off But Éibhear was unwilling to open the second He liked his lungs to be functionalto breathe He was sure if he drank another drop of that ale, breathing would be the last thing they’d ever do

Yet he illing to drink as s a bit between him and Izzy She wasn’t drunk Not even close But she was like the Izzy he remembered The Izzy he hadn’t embarrassed in front of their faht on the hill outside Garbhán Isle Instead, she was the Izzy who liked to steal his weapons--weapons very few humans could lift ue with hiave hi, she’d stare at his hair He liked to i, she held up a dagger he’d taken off a Spike a couple of years back How she’d got it fro holster, he had no idea He’d never seen her old"