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Interlude II: Confess, part i

    The drake felt death breathing down his neck. He laughed.


    like you.”


    your messes,” the secretary replied at last. “I have a stack full of untranscribed reports lingering because of this moil. Every day I wonder why Sofrani bothers keep you around.”


    Who else was there? Instead of saying it, the adviser overtook the secretary, aiming toward the dusty corridor, toward his office.


    ineffective, and???—”


    lost anyone, Adwyn?”


    rather.”


    You chose to follow me. He didn’t say it. He licked a brille, tongue nimbly curving around his eyepaint. He choose to say, “A nice walk and talk with a friend?”


    is becoming a quantity of interest. Surely it’s worthwhile that we read each other’s pages on the matter?”


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    “You fucked up, Adwyn.”


    watched. Contemplative, analyzing, regarding, peering, looking: all of these, but there was something more, something hidden. As ever, her brilles remained clouded.


    still.


    piqued. So I inquired the Sgr?li ac Neidr just whether any dragon had checked out any relevant scrolls, or otherwise shone interest in humans.”


    Return of Dwylla.” Her inflection could have been disbelief, or something about as skeptical.


    any reason why these are your suspects?”


    know you didn’t allow them to sit in on your conversation with the G?rens.”


    why.”


    groups in town.” The red wiver scratched her right cheek with her left wing, and he knew she covered some twitch of a smile. She finally elaborated, “You guessed it without his help.”


    Suspicious.”


    the faer. No working of this town escapes my gaze.”


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    Adwyn had, in his head, practiced the flow of the day’s events. Enough that when delivering his recitation to the faer, he found his mind traveling distant the landscapes of his mind. Then, starkly, a detail he’d kept hidden shone suddenly out.


    behold, a sky-dweller spy. What could anyone gain?”


    protects us from the sky.”


    how you saw through the Specter’s cloak? It could prove enlightening.”


    we, have never heard of such an ability.”


    no one has glimpsed to sell this white light. It would be above profitable.”


    the eternal faer.”


    I have been here for nearly seven dozen, and no shadowy assassins. Only disgruntled plain-dwellers.” She smiled an impervious smile.


    her than you think.”


    puzzle might betray to some an ignorance of scale; but Adwyn left no puzzle unresolved, whether it took days, cycles, or dances. And as it stood, it could not take longer than negotiating the sleeping faer into an canyon alliance.


    vexing, to have a goal and yet be unable to pursue it.


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