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Azure bands again bound him to a simple chair. By the look if it, it held only a few rooms. One by one, Shailiha smiled into each new face. He produced a small white scroll.

“The Redoubt already hostsacademies for the consuls’ gifted children and for the Redoubt acolytes. Hundreds of wooden crates stood in the moonlight. But unlike before, this time the wind didn’t abate. He felt good; he had three hundred and fifty dol ars in his pocket.