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. Though
it will be some time before he has any interest in kitchen
matters - " He did not finish the thought but jerked around
when a hard finger caught him between the ribs.
"Keep a civil tongue in your head, youngster," Flint
growled.
"I didn't mean - "
"I know what you meant. Now why don't you go off
and do what you do best: find yourself something to eat."
It was a suggestion Caramon never found amiss. When
he was gone, Tanis grinned again. "Runne is a beauty, isn't
she?"
"Aye, she's that. Her grandfather would have been
proud this day."
Memories darkened the old dwarf's eyes again, clouds
in a clear sky. As though to deny the sudden thread of
sadness running through his day, Flint looked around,
searched the crowd of family and friends now surging
around the new bride and her husband. "That addle-pated
kender never turned up."
"I haven't seen him, but Tas isn't one to miss a
celebration. He'll be here before long and likely you'll be
wishing he wasn't."
Yet through the long summer afternoon and into the hot
dark of night the guests at the wedding moved easily,
refilling wine goblets or ale pots and plates too soon
emptied of the good food. No one cried thief, no one
wondered where his purse had got to, no lady missed even
the smallest trinket or scarf
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