ELENA StOOD BY ttIOS o t and tc one by one in tle Borso. At intervals people  o ting if anyt all. It le t lay a.

    From t all, and no lig, fires banked,  t of ts, everyone kne.

    ttle noise from een or ty people must o Mattios  t knoo join ter, at ting-place; s too fe been enoug year, or t, and t ttles very badly. t er to replace t certainly lose tonight.

    It arry nige crescent of Vidomni as s

    sky, a different feel to t entirely, in only a fele began.

    Carenna  stopping to talk. It  a time for talking. Elena  Carenna tonig  oo soon for o be doing t s  tarry for any man or  he world of day.

    So a couple s kno o the house.

    t on t, timing ter to in t of ting in darkness and praying.

    Praying for rain and to be fruitful to tall  of fall. For to nourisake root and t, giving soil. Praying —t ually onig alkers to save their lives.

    Elena instinctively reaco finger t s  t  of transparent birthe womb.

    A symbol of good fortune, birt sac o be destined for a life blessed by triad.

    te soutains, teac.  rites  deeper, furto o moutando a c said to be guarded from deat sea, or naively named for fortune.

    It was marked for war.

    For t eac of ts t began the

    year. Foug yet risen seedlings t  cities, cut off from trut of suc for all tando, o pray and to be afraid of sounds in t t mighe dead abroad.

    From beoucurned to see Mattio looking quizzically at her.

    Sh one hand.

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