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. But the steely determination that had
brought her this far still glimmered in her eyes. SHE'S GOT
MORE HEART THAN STRENGTH, Tanis thought.
"We'll rest here a moment, Riana. We all need it."
She nodded dumbly, too tired to speak, and sank to a seat on an
ice-kissed boulder. Tanis eyed her doubtfully for a moment, then
went to join Flint at the cliff's edge.
"She's not going to be able to go much farther, Tanis. The girl's
exhausted."
"I know. And she isn't the only one. You've been quiet these
few hours, Flint. How are you?"
Flint blew on fingers that were stiff and achingly cold. "My
bones are freezing. I suppose this is what comes of listening to the
wild stories of pretty young women who lose their brothers and
lovers in the forest?"
"Lover? Who, Karel? What makes you say that?"
Flint snorted and shook his head. "Anyone who's heard her
story can tell that. Though its likely news to her, too. She's
doubtless devoted to her brother, but it's been this young Karel
we've heard about time and again, hasn't it? Young girls don't
generally blush quite so deeply when they are talking about family
friends."
"Flint, you surprise me."
"Why, because I can use my eyes? I'm not so old as all that,
youngster. But that's not what concerns me now. What I want to
know is where in the Abyss we are."
Tanis looked down into the valley, a deep cleft in the
mountains shrouded in a thick mist
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