Dragoncrest Cliffs see me coming to town with my soul,

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nearby, rosalyn sought a patch of sunlight and watched her children. to loko, the pride on her face was stronger than any beam of sunlight -- and carried with it tremendous feeling and importance.

chacal pressed close, each bound more powerful than the next until it seemed she might have gathered so much momentum that she would be propelled into the stratosphere. loko had learned once already that standing still to watch the engagement of your opponent was a mistake: he kept moving, bidding the distance between them to grow each time chacal advanced.

eventually, she would catch him easily enough -- he was still but a boy untrained with sparring, and chacal had a year's worth of education ahead of him.