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held the life glittered in the sun as she laid it flat against her breast, a in her hands, and the life
was almost everything. It was platinum rectangle, simple and severe, with only the why a healer
couldnтАЩt freely touch the injured or the dying golden glow of two hands, palm up, to alleviate the
stark- at her level of skill; the call was almost impossible ness. No one in the city could mistake
the medallion itself to ignore. Not that she would have ignored it; she was, for anything other
than what it was. as Levee had said, the softest free towner that he had

The flash of light cut the shadow and drew the womanтАЩs attention, and although she made no
move as Levee ever met.

She brushed a stray strand of limp, dark hair from the toward Askeyia, her dark eyes lit with a
hunger, a hope, curve of her cneek; it was shorn by fire, the candleтАЩs that the healer had seen so
often it shouldnтАЩt have been kissтАФone sheтАЩd been too tired to completely avoid. With jarring. But
it was. care, she took the child from the arms of his mother.

тАЬHealer,тАЭ the woman said. Healer, I knowтАФ Askeyia lifted a hand that was at once gentle and
impe-

HeтАЩs only a babe, she thought. It wonтАЩt cost much.

rious. She held out her hands but the womanтАЩs arms, thin Babies were need define(j5 but thdr needs were
si { and fragile, seemed locked in a position that she herself ^ sleeping physicai COmfort. Askeyia felt
the had forgotten how to break. Shock-or worse. The ^^ ^ ┬г ^ {n a msh ag ^ h^ th h woman started to
speak agam and again Askeyia lifted a inarticulate icture smells_the smells were strong-hand Of all he
things that she found^ difficult the. f ^ miH j ful tearful tired> and some.


pleading was always the worst; it cut her, to hear a voice ^ angry m^ ^ v^nySh^ could nQt re<:ognize this


┬░тАЬielm AskeyiaeaтАЩNarin,тАЭ she told the woman gently. womafn, jтАЬ *e woman who stood in such
desperation, тАЭAnd IтАЩm-IтАЩm about toтАЩstart my day at the M^тАШlSfS^^^ temple in the thirteenth
holding.тАЬ It was absolutely true

тАЬT-f sтАвA.┬л┬лтАШ┬л4 If hahтАЩ A 1W n. wrv├╝ ^qh or┬лr*r┬╗mr┬╗cinтАЩt/ mp тАЭ She p

тАЬIf youтАЩd-if youтАЩd like, you can accompany me held out her arms again.


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тАЬтДвтДв loneliness? Not yet; not yet He was Lesso; a diminutive, Askeyia told herself, ld
out her arms again. although it was a struggle to find the word. When he was