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“They seemed to be conversing with him amicably, as if nothing had happened. That sank her surge of hopeful trust a bit. To be sure, they were courtiers. It wasn’t their business to quarrel, or to judge and disapprove. And he was a wizard, and their host’s wizard. Still, she thought, they needn’t have walked and talked with him quite so comfortably.”

“…she would not give the child to them. They were all men aboard the ship.”