[This post is from David O’Credne Miller’s point of view.]<\/p>\r\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s not the first time I\u2019ve heard something like that,\u201d the healer said, smiling wryly.\u00a0 \u201cAnd I imagine that you\u2019ve got as good a reason to say it as anyone I\u2019ve ever heard express that sentiment.\u201d<\/p>\r\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cYou could say that,\u201d David said slowly, glancing toward Issy, then Bryant.\u00a0 He swallowed hard, trying to collect his thoughts, wondering who, exactly, the healer might have been talking about with that statement.<\/p>\r\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 For all you know, it could be anyone.\u00a0 It could even be your uncle.<\/em><\/p>\r\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 That was still hard to swallow.\u00a0 His uncle, here<\/em>.<\/p>\r\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Still here,<\/em> he corrected himself.\u00a0 The Wanderer wanders no more, I guess.<\/em><\/p>\r\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Still, it seemed a little odd.<\/p>\r\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cAs to the question of what hit him,\u201d Bryant said, \u201cit wasn\u2019t just<\/em> outriders.\u201d<\/p>\r\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cIs that what you told Matt it was?\u201d the healer smiled faintly.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019d wondered.\u00a0 None of them told me\u2014not that I\u2019ve given them all that much chance since yesterday.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been a little busy.\u201d<\/p>\r\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Bryant nodded slowly.\u00a0 \u201cIt definitely was linked to a larger force, but what hit us wasn\u2019t human.\u201d<\/p>\r\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The healer didn\u2019t flinch\u2014she didn\u2019t even look surprised<\/em>.\u00a0 David swallowed bile that suddenly rose in his throat.\u00a0 If there had been even a shred of doubt in his mind that they were in the right place, it would have been erased then and there.\u00a0 The healer\u2019s gaze flicked toward him again, her expression softening slightly.<\/p>\r\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cI knew what I was looking at when I looked at your wounds,\u201d she said softly.\u00a0 \u201cI know what the looks of them and your fever mean.\u00a0 I\u2019ve seen it before, I just have to wonder what kind of creature it was, if not a fury or a camazotzi<\/em>.\u00a0 Figure out that piece and we start to sort through whose forces you ran into\u2014and then we can figure out the ramifications of the same.\u201d<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [This post is from David O’Credne Miller’s point of view.] \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s not the first time I\u2019ve heard something like that,\u201d the healer said, smiling wryly.\u00a0 \u201cAnd I imagine that you\u2019ve got as good a reason to say it as … Continue reading