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be happy. He sat frowning into his goblet until the, for him, bizarre silence got on her nerves.

тАЬDoes her family live here in town?тАЭ

тАЬUm?тАЭ He looked up, startled. тАЬMy apologies. What did you say?тАЭ

тАЬYour heart is really troubled, isnтАЩt it?тАЭ

тАЬIтАЩll admit to that. I was just remembering when Alaena died.тАЭ

He got up and paced over to the one small window, leaned against the sill, and stared fixedly out at the
courtyard below. Old grief turned his unnaturally handsome face slack. Jill waited for the tale and his
usual flood of words. It never came.

тАЬDoes her family live here in town?тАЭ she repeated.

тАЬIt doesnтАЩt. I did a bit of asking round in the market before I came back here. She isтАФof all thingsтАФan
acrobat. One of a troupe of acrobats just come from Main Island.тАЭ As he turned back a glossy smile
smoothed and masked his face. тАЬFancy that! IтАЩve heard of strange and solemn twists and turns of wild
and wandering Wyrd before, but thisтАФтАЭ

тАЬHold your tongue, will you? I suppose thereтАЩs no harm in getting to know her a bit. But for the sake of
all the gods, will you try to remember this? That even if by some bizarre chance this is the soul you knew
as Alaena, she isnтАЩt the same person anymore. You have no idea what this child is like. None.тАЭ

тАЬTrue enough, much as it aches my eager heart.тАЭ

There were times when Salamander could irritate Jill beyond belief, and this was one of them. For all
that his half-elven blood kept him looking young, he was fifty-some years older than she, but although
heтАЩd started studying their mutual craft of the dweomer long before sheтАЩd been born, sheтАЩd so far
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overtaken him that she was, in a very real though unspoken way, the master now to his journeyman.
Though he acknowledged her authority, which came ultimately from Nevyn himself, it didnтАЩt take
dweomer to see that he resented it as well.

тАЬYouтАЩre truly angry with me, arenтАЩt you?тАЭ Salamander wiped his smile away.

тАЬYe gods! You promised me you were going to devote yourself to your studies, but youтАЩve kept finding
one cursed distraction after another. Now this! And thereтАЩs the lass to consider, too, you know. SheтАЩs
but a chid.тАЭ

тАЬOld enough to have been married for years in Deverry.тАЭ

тАЬThis isnтАЩt Deverry.тАЭ

тАЬI was afraid you were going to say that. Jill, is it me youтАЩre angry with, or is it everything? The delay, I