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. "I'm so glad...." He reached out and pulled her into
his arms, crushed her to his chest.
"I'm glad, too," she whispered, pulling his face to hers and
kissing him. Flint's heart thumped harder than it had when
Pitrick threatened his life.
And then Flint peeled Perian's arms loose and stepped
away. "We can't do this," he growled. "We're different, in-
side and out, and there's no hope for a match like ours."
"You can't know that," she cried, reaching after him.
But he stepped back again. "I know it."
Chapter 16
Misguided Mission
"Do you really think he'd do it?" Flint asked Perian.
He paced about the small Thrown Room several hours after
the magical battle with the derro savant during the "crowna-
tion" party. "He'd destroy a whole village of innocent hill
dwarves simply for revenge against me?"
Flint and Perian had helped the gully dwarves begin the
cleanup of the Big Sky Room, entombing the casualties of
Pitrick's magic in temporary vaults in the wall of a secluded
mine shaft. Fortunately only nine of the Aghar had suc-
cumbed to the assault. Those brave Aghar who had been
paralyzed by the carrion crawler's tentacles were slowly re-
covering in a makeshift infirmary under Shaman Nomscul's
care
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