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And now, there was a chance it would keep hiry while he was in Helsinki Three days of searching hadn’t turned up a job yet He wasn’t desperate, but it wasn’t far off at this rate If he didn’t find a job soon, he could always do a little busking in the parks All the tourists pouring off the cruise ships would be happy to toss him a few euros

Snatching up his battered backpack from the floor, he turned and emptied its contents onto the bed He’d not been able to packsuspicion

Monthly trips weretowns for a variety of supplies He wasn’t picked too often for the job, but Jarvi had come up sick at the last minute, and he’d been tapped to run for supplies Maybe it was fate s care

Each day when he left his room, he took all his possessions with hihborhood He didn’t want to risk losing what little he had to a thief

In his backpack, he’d e of clothes and a couple extra pairs of underwear and socks He’d also grabbed toiletries as well as his favorite book A loose pick tossed inside the guitar had been enough to fake so him to claim that he planned to have it repaired while he ran the necessary errands

The one thing he wished he’d grabbedto cast a lot ofspells that would help h redients, and it would be a while before he could replenish them

As it was, August in Helsinki didn’t offer much in the way of newly fallen snow, and he hadn’t dared stop to capture light fro He’d have to wait until the next one Some of the herbs could probably be found in the countryside, but without a car andthose was unlikely

No, his best chance of getting new spell ingredients was going to be from another clan

Except he didn’t know of any other clans in Finland Hell, he didn’t knohere any other e clans were period The rest of the world seeons had died out following the Great Dragon War, but Tori knew better If his clan had survived, then he illing to bet there were other e clans out there But he wasn’t sure as alive or even where they were

The only probleons existed as well

And dragons were the only thing in this world worse than his own clan