Sun Mote Copse Think I'll slip on down to the oasis

"We are cousins - yes - but we did not know each other at all, until I ran into her by accident several weeks before," Wraen explained, the words felt slightly odd on her tongue, because now it seemed as if she had known the russet pelted leader all her life. Some people had this surprising effect on you.

"And you are Finley's brother - one of the famed Blackthorns," as she said this there was a faint note of good-natured teasing in her voice. "From what I have seen and heard - daredevillry runs in your blood. Or am I wrong?"