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. As a rule. Also unstable and gener-
ally unpleasant. Of course, one can make some allow-
ances, considering how short-lived they usually are...
Girl, have you ever seen a human?"
"Of course not. I've never been outside of Thorbardin.
But I've heard about them. Chane has seen several, when
he's gone out to carry reports or messages for you, and
he talks about them. He even saw an elf once."
"Yes, I know," Goldbuckle sighed. "All sorts show up
at barter camps, but such places are no place for a girl
like you. I swear! Why, I shudder to think of -"
"Chane is out there, somewhere. And he's visited these
barter camps before, at your employ, after all."
"That's different! Chane can take care of himself.
You -"
"That's the other thing I wanted to talk about. He may
need the money he earned from you. If you'll give it to
me, I'll give it to him... when I find him."
Chapter 7
For miles, the black path would and curved
through dense forest. Then, past one final, long curve, it
broke out of the forest and extended arrow-straight
across a mounded plain where little vegetation grew -
only mosses and spindly, scattered shrubs. The light of
the moons Lunitari and Solinari - the first nearly over-
head, the second just above the crags of Westwall -
bathed the scene in eerie red and white highlights
beneath a spangled sky
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