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. Let him sleep."
When she spoke again Riana's voice was low and trembling. "I
will not abandon Karel or Daryn." She bit her lower lip, worrying
it until Tanis thought it must bleed. "I hate this forest. I am not the
fool your friend thinks I am. I-I would like nothing better than to
go with you to Solace. But-I cannot. Can you not see that I must
at least try to find them? They are all the family I have . . ." Her
words trailed away, as though she did not wish to contemplate a
life without her brother or her friend.
In the silence Tanis shivered as the wind grew suddenly sharper.
The flames leaped high and then dropped almost to embers.
Smoke, thick and acrid, billowed from the campfire, stinging his
eyes to quick tears. Above him he could hear a deep-throated roar-
ing, the sound wind makes racing across the treetops. Though for
an instant he could not see her, Tanis knew that Riana was on her
feet. He heard her coughing, a choking sound filled with ragged
gasping. Behind him, Flint was up and complaining bitterly about
people who could not keep a simple camping fire from burning
down an entire forest.
The wind kicked harder at the fire, scattering bright embers
around their feet, sucking at the smoke until it rose in a black
column to vanish into the unseen limbs of the trees above their
heads. Fear danced up Tanis's spine.
"Riana?" he called.
Her voice was small and pinched, only a whimpering response
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