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it was then that muskrat did move to face akavir, her bold eyes touched by a woman's worry for another. a moment of reassurance followed, and she nodded.

"i find mae. she ask i fight her." for what reason, she did not know, but she meant to heed the commands of those ranked higher.

and now akavir offered that too. muskrat flicked her eyes over the skull and the bone-path, then to his own powerful limbs and the face that regarded her quietly.

she had not decided if she would stay, because she had found nothing to ease the pain of cloud singer nor the hatred for gorseberry that kept her awake more and more. but then again, she had been a crippled servant all this time. he offered a chance for a true story to unfold.

and she would be a fool not to take it. "all right." was this a betrayal of what she knew?