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'Does the moon look bigger to you tonight?'

The Book of Ataniel

About The Things That I Done



�Shit,� coughed Karel, rolling to a stop at the base of the hill. Then Khyrisse landed on top of him. �Oof!�

�Sorry,� she mumbled, not feeling very sorry, and picked herself up. There was still a faint and disturbing rumbling somewhere beneath the ground. An unpleasant haze of gravel dust hovered in the air down here. Khyrisse wasn�t usually prone to asthma attacks, but this was pushing her breathability limits. �Did you do that,� she demanded rhetorically, fanning the air in front of her face around, �or did I?�

�I think it was me, actually,� said Rani, stepping through the cloud dragging Aithne and Tarrin behind her by the wrists. �We�re in a little bit of a hurry here, do you mind just grabbing on?�

�What?� said Khyrisse, blinking at the grim-faced halfbreed. �What are you--why are we in a hurry?�

�My wife is dying,� Tarrin said in an anguished voice. �Please, we must save her!�

�That and I�ve got Sidhe breathing down my neck,� Rani said, �I�d kind of like to get out of here before they kick my ass. Or before I have to tear this whole place apart to get away from �em.�

Khyrisse looked at Aithne. Aithne just looked scared. �All right,� the sorceress sighed, then realized too late that sighing in a cloud of gravel dust made you choke on it pathetically.

�Why are the Sidhe chasing you anyway?� Karel asked curiously, taking his wheezing sister by the arm. �You didn�t steal something from them, did you?�

�That�s R-A-N-I, not K-I-T.� She nodded her assent, and he put his hand gingerly on her shoulder. �I ditched out on their destiny thing.�

�You did?� said Karel, blinking at her. �Can--I ask what it was?�

�No,� she said. �They asked for something I wasn�t willing to give up. That�s all you need to know. Hold on, and hold on tight.�

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