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Chapter Thirty Eight

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Kia

He found me in the locked east wing of the estate.

I had been spending an hour there each afternoon, reading through the elder folders, building a picture from the old records of what anchor-born bloodlines were and what they had always been used for and what my mother had known and when she had known it.

The reading was not comforting. But it was necessary.

I was sitting on the floor with my back against the portrait wall, three folders open across my lap, when the door opened and Kratavak
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