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more significantly, far across the ocean, Working dweomer across any body of water is impossible,
because the exhalations of elemental and the astral vibrations break up an image as fast as even the best
dweomermaster can build it. Other dweomermasters had told Jill many a time that Dallandra had long left
ordinary physical existence behind, even though none of them knew exactly in what state she did exist. At
best she was semicorporeal, a thing of etheric substance only, which would make her even more
vulnerable to the water forces than an ordinary magically produced shape or image. Yet here she was, or
at the least some clear projection of her, coming through onto the physical plane. It was more of a puzzle
than Jill could solve.

When she went back inside, she paused for a moment at the door of the common room and watched
Salamander lounging at a table with a half-empty wine cup in his slender hands and smiling as he listened
to the talk and jests flying like juggling clubs among the troupe of acrobats. HeтАЩs probably been lonely,
Jill thought. The gods all know that IтАЩm poor enough company when IтАЩve got some working at hand. Yet
her annoyance lingered, that heтАЩd distract himself from his studies this way. She had, after all, promised
Nevyn that she would oversee his dweomer training and do her best to get him to work up to his
potential. In her mind, any promise sheтАЩd made to Nevyn was a sacred charge.



Dallandra had come to Bardek searching for Jill, or to be precise, sheтАЩd been searching for Jill on the
inner planes and traced her to a place that had turned out to be Bardek. Judging from the way that Time
ran in that world in which she was experiencing Time, it had only been a few weeks since sheтАЩd left her
dweomermaster of a husband, Aderyn of the Silver Wings, back in the Westlands, although she knew, of
course, that it was well over two hundred years as men and elves reckoned the span. Even though she
was aware of the split between the two time flows, it was hard to keep track of small variations. It
seemed to her that sheтАЩd last seen Jill the day before, when in truth it had been nearly three years. During
that last meeting, Jill had asked her about the rose ringтАЩs secret and sheтАЩd tried to find the answer for the
human dweomerwoman.

тАЬIтАЩd forgotten about the lapse of time,тАЭ she remarked to Evandar. тАЬShe was so surprised that IтАЩd
remember.тАЭ

тАЬEventually youтАЩll grow used to the ebb and flow, and youтАЩll see why we donтАЩt concern ourselves with
the affairs of that world of yours. It all speeds by, like light on a running stream.тАЭ

тАЬSo it must. How many of their years is a day here?тАЭ
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тАЬWhat? How would I know?тАЭ

тАЬHavenтАЩt you ever thought to work it out?тАЭ

тАЬWhatever for? Besides, it changes, how fast things flow.тАЭ

тАЬIt changes? Well, thereтАЩs a bother, then. On what principle?тАЭ

тАЬOn what?тАЭ