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days? Oh, Ahrd, could you not have sped us
quicker here?"

More reasonably, Katya gestured at the depths of
the Kess Imbrun and asked, "Klust he not go down
the Daggan Vhe? And then climb the farther wall?
Do we ride hard, might we not take him in the
chasm? He travels alone, after all."

"Hardly." Bracht shook his head, indicating the
massive rift with jutted chin. "The Blood Road's no
easy descent; no place to hurry. And below? Down
there the rocks are tumbled like a maze, like a for-

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est of stone. NoтАФwith such a lead he's the advan-
tage of us. Again."

Katya nodded, accepting his superior knowledge
of the terrain, nibbling an instant on her lower lip
as she thought.

"And he's taken another's form," Bracht grunted
sourly. "Filthy gharan-evur! Ahrd, but every cursed
Jesseryte looks alike, and none with any love for
strangers. He needs only continue onto the Plain to
find refuge."

"I should know him again," Cennaire ventured,
"did I but see his face."

Bracht's eyes narrowed at that, and she felt
Calandryll tense once more- Katya studied her curi-
ously and she feared she overplayed her hand, af-
fecting a trembling of her lips, a tearful blinking-

"We've no spare horse/' Bracht said.

"Shall we leave her here then?" asked Calandryll.

"She knows his face," said Katya.

"She'll slow us." Bracht drove an angry fist
against his thigh, teeth gritted in frustration. "Do
we bring her with us, one horse must always carry
double."

"She's light enough," Calandryll offered. "And
once before, we found a stranger on the road. The