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Instinctively, they both reached for each other. Neither of
them uttered a word. The worst, it seemed, had happened.
They had been found out.
The pounding on the door continued, matched only by
the pounding of their hearts. Seron took a deep breath and
kissed his wife lightly on the forehead. "Let's try to be
brave," he said in a voice that nonetheless betrayed his fear.
She nodded.
Seron got to his feet and opened the door.
"What did I do, roust you two out of bed?" roared Seron's
brother, Long-Chin Cheb. "What took you so long to open
up? It's not as if you had so far to go to reach the door," he
added, glancing disdainfully at the walls of the tiny hut.
"We . . . we didn't expect to see you," said Seron,
catching his breath. "This is quite a surprise. What brings
you to Flotsam? Is - is anything wrong?"
"Must something be wrong for me to visit my only
family?"
"Seron didn't mean that," piped up Kyra in her
husband's defense. "He's glad to see you, just as I am."
Cheb smiled at his sister-in-law. "That's nice of you to
say. And let me tell you, you're still a pleasure to look at,"
he added. "I've always said, my brother's done an awful lot
of foolish things in his life, but marrying you wasn't one of
them
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