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"it's something that goes around your wrist, see," and heda bent a thin stem of rosevine against her own ankle. "bracelet was a snake, and she'd wrap all the way around aunt druid's wrist. snakes don't have legs. they're like — have you ever seen a worm curled all up? snakes are like that, but larger."
while he looked in one direction, heda found the faintest reek of badger, and followed its musky strength down into a little gully. "oh, dear," she murmured to herself, motioning for gideon to keep back. "badgers are nasty with a bad bite. look," toward a ramshackle pile of deadfall over a wide-mouthed burrow, "that's where he's made his set."