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" Yeah. You ready to go, Silent? "

Silent nodded.

" Darling, come here. " I squeezed her in a long, tight hug. " You be good for Raven. " I unfastened the amulet One-Eye had given me, fixed it on her wrist, told Raven, " That'll let her know if any unfriendly Taken comes around. Don't ask me how, but it works. Luck. "

" Yeah. " He stood there looking at us as we mounted, still baffled. He raised a hand tentatively, dropped it.

I told Silent, " Let's go home. " And we rode away.

Neither of us looked back.

It was an incident that never happened. After all, hadn't Raven and his orphan died at the gates of Charm?

Back to the Company. Back to business. Back to the parade of years. Back to these Annals. Back to fear.

Thirty-seven years before the comet returns. The vision has to be false. I'll never survive that long. Will I?

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