s expression was veiled, unreadable.

    quot;?quot;  lengt;ould you abandon me so soon after our company is formed?quot; And tly: quot;t you cannot kno you should hear.”

    quot;But s; Devin protested, feeling somet of balance. quot;S; opped himself.

    Alessans eyes range.

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    urned and oanding just before it. Alessan stopped before t and t eac he cheek.

    t past  t and dreeadying breated a o run it t stopped himself. A queer smile crossed his face as if chasing a memory.

    quot;A bad , t,quot; o no one in particular. t in and they followed him.

    ts bedc as large as tting room in t, but its furnisarkly simple. ts, a ing desk, a trunk for storage, a small privy set apart in tern corner. to t room, s, despite tains drao admit some slanting ligicoes to t.

    tar of Eanna  it too s in the four corners, and a pine headboard.

    It y.

    Devin, nervously follo ted to see a dying tle embarrassed, to jumped  from t fall.

    quot;rangers?”

    Alessan urned unerringly to ered t sense, Devin never knew —and so rolled and unsurprised w cold voice

    spoke. Or and by one of t do, raig  all of them.

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    But t , a style long out of fase certainty t current faso t  t, unsettling