Duck Lake We were only looking forward

"I am new also," taltos murmured regretfully, but his eyes were bright. perhaps there was a place for this gunmetal wisp in tonravik's domain. "i am from the north. i serve tonravik, of tartok." he did not openly raise the question of her accompanying him to meet the sable berserker, but the hint lay in the open all the same.

"what brought you here?" he inquired, moving closer in friendliness. "i do not know much of this land, but it has been kind to me — to tartok — thus far." he wondered from whence she had arrived, and why; she seemed innocent enough, naive of her surroundings, and he was not wary, but there was a reason for each journey.

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