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"You worried about tomorrow?" he asked

"Probably more than I should be"

"Don’t worry I’ll be there every step of the way"

"To protect randmother from me?"

Soft lips kissed the back of her neck before she heard, "Both"

Annwyl sat up in her bed, a book open on her lap Fearghus would be coht, but that just meant she had a little tihts when she ended up happily wrestling with Fearghus

In fact, she was so looking forward to some time to herself, when she heard that knock on her bedroohed and crossed her eyes before she said, "What?"

The door opened and to Annwyl’s surprise, her son stuck his head in "Hello, Mum Got a minute?"

"Of course Come in" She put a leather strip in her book to ?" he asked

"A history about wars in the Eastlands"

"Interesting?"

"Very But you didn’t come here about books, my love What is it?"

Talan closed the door and walked into the roo to show you"

"Then showa scroll out of the top of his boot and handing it to hisa look at the once-sealed docues that ca about this Not even fro it, just tell me, Talan"

He cleared his throat and Annwyl realized this was the first time she’d ever seen her son lookunco he had the ability to feel that eht, Talan Go on"

"Proet h "True, I shouldn’t ask the iht you’d have known that by now So what is it? What’s in this scroll you think I should see--without your father here?"

"Far, far to the west, past the Sovereign Provinces, is a brotherhood of ed "Monks"

"And what do the monks want?"