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She might come in handy another time. ”Roland stepped up behind Jake and peered in over the boy’s head, cupping his own hands to reduce his reflection. Susan, who had spent the morning enduring final fittings, was dressed in a thin silk wrapper and large leather boots. This is the blood that has flowed out of Thunderclap and threatens to drown our side of the world, he thinks, and it

ea of the Cöos actually was, and they only the vaguest), but the glass was finally sapping it—sucking it out of her as a vampire sucks blood. And I’ll always love you, no matter what comes. Bird and bear and hare and fish, she thought. We’ll do our best for our friends.