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I know more than a word, Riane said. Talaasa whirled, and Riane felt a slight lessening of the terrible cold that had flooded through her. What if she could not get to Perrnodt? What if Perrnodt did not know where it was? Calming hermind, she put all her doubts aside and concentrated on the task at hand. She steepled herslender fingers, tapping the long nails together rhythmically.

Jesst handed over a data-decagon. e Sea of Blood was choppy in the following southwest wind, dark as ludd-wine, dark as its namesake. They couldclearly mark the higher elevations, where the Abbey of Floating White and its many-tiered town of StoneBorder were to be found farther to their northwest. A spy would wish to know these things, wouldshe not? Riane took Tezziq's free hand and placed it just beneath her breast.