Alec's folks had promised to put him through col ege if he made good in highschool, so Alec worked hard. Still clutching the branch and the scroll, he started the long walk back to the Redoubt. “Watch as I bring the needed spell,” the lead cleric told the others. Tiny pinpricks of color could be seen here and there—war banners, heguessed.
Tristanwatched in horror as the Tammerland angled downward so steeply this time that all he could seefrom his window was bloody grass, and the scattered bodies left behind on the battlefield. “A blood criterion and a signaturescope sit over there,” she said. There has alreadybeen too much death. “It always has been—justas it has been the destiny of each Jin’Sai and Jin’Saiou before you who tried and failed.
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