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. He looked at
me- It was as though he pleaded for my help. Or bade me
farewell." She stopped, a sob caught in her throat, grief and an
almost witless despair in her wide blue eyes. "And then it touched
him, took his hand, and another one took Daryn, my brother,
and-and they were gone."
She dropped her forehead to her knees and rocked there in
silent misery. Moved by her sorrow, Tanis put his arm around her.
She leaned against him, shivering. In the stillness of the black
night the fire's crackling seemed too loud.
"And you've been lost these two days, wandering?"
"No!" Her voice was muffled against his shoulder. Tanis could
feel her stiffen in anger. "I'm not lost, I'm trying to FIND them!"
"It seems to me," Flint muttered, his eyes still on his whittling,
"that it amounts to about the same thing."
"It's not the same thing." Riana pulled away from Tanis and
brushed at the hair straggling across her tear-streaked face.
"I see. Then perhaps you have an idea where these ghosts or
phantoms have taken your brother and his friend?"
"If I knew that I'd be going there."
"Lost and wandering."
Before Riana could protest, Tanis took her hand and silenced
Flint with a sharp look. "Riana, whatever the case may be, you
cannot be alone in these woods. Our way lies northeast to Solace.
We would be glad of your company that far."
"No. Thank you, but no. I must find my brother and Karel
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