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Rousing VIII: Repine, part ii

    Adwyn had left us alone, if after an exchange with Hinte that was her glaring and his smirking back until he bowed his head and turned to leave in the direction of the head guard and the scribes returning to town hall.  I tried???—??really tried???—??not to wonder what message he would send the faer.


    Rhyfel, and I’m just... your...”


    fly, while I was being stabbed in a burning building.”  Hinte brushed an alula over a soot covered shoulder.


    secrets to counter alchemical strains.”


    up.  Digrif was there, winging down behind the black-clad wiver.  He landed with a thump, glancing at the alchemist, then behind her at me.


    Why are you going?  I told you aren’t useless, I admitted you were capable.  Nothing is wrong.”


    say something, and when I do, it is just the wrong thing.  What do you want me to say, Kinri?”


    dark? We’re supposed to be heroes.”


    do want to be a hero, see?  But to be a good hero, you need to be a beacon of happiness and positivity.”


    die, or be arrested, or–or something, if you followed orders... would you?”


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    “So, now that the gang’s all here, what’s next?”  The warm-gray drake had shifted position; he had started walking right before realizing we weren’t going anywhere, and stopped.


    continue to trust you, tell me.”


    wasn’t.  At all!”


    smiled.  “If you want that is.  Hinte’s just being a little... Hinte, right now.”


    too pretty, smart enough.”  I flicked and twisted my tongue.  “It wasn’t fun???—??the rules chafed, the judgments stung???—??but I closed it off and flew on, because that’s what you do when something’s important and you care about it, right?  But then I realized, why should I care about any of this?  And it all fell apart.”


    plan.  He said he was going to become the Zenith.  And he told me he would bring me back to the Constellation when he did it.


    die never seeing the Constellation again.  The last winner always plans for failure, right?  Err, that saying sounds a bit weird in y Draig.


    the adventurers in the cliffs!  They fought monsters and saved dragons, and blazed glory all across the country.  Then, they found a Dyfnderi labor camp plagued by monsters, and disease and???—??they say???—??the terrible demon of the lake...”


    was a monster, basically.  He struck mysteriously in the dead of night, and no one has ever seen his face.  He could have been a conjuration of the demon of the lake, for all we know.”


    killed! On Dwylla-drwg’s own orders!”  She sighed.  “Did you not learn of the Inquiry with all of your ‘history?’”


    What!”  Quieter, he said, “Why would you do that?  Why would they want that?”


    we do trust you.  Right, Hinte?”


    means something.”


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