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Sheemie tittered. “I would hear. “Come in, my friend,” a voice—not Rimer’s—called. Roland was still calling to her, louder now, but she flung Pylon into a gallop and away from him before her brief flare of rage could go out.

“Don’t be a fool,” he said sharply, and Roland wheeled toward him, looking surprised. Cuthbert said much the same. Jonas had locked her in and had gone to Coral. He said it as a man would state any dry fact: sky is up, earth is down, water flows south.