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“They had a long way to fly today and tomorrow—all the way to the edge of the Ruhnn Mountains.
To find spidersilk. And the legendary Stygian spiders, large as horses and deadlier than poison, who wove it.”

“She uncoiled to her feet, spear in one hand and a stake in the other, and crept to the narrow cave entrance. With the rain and the fire, she couldn’t make out anything. But every hair on her body was standing, and a growing reek was slithering in from the forest beyond. Like leather and carrion. Different from what she’d whiffed at the barrows. Older and earthier and … hungrier.”