Whatever else he was, he was no coward. Furious, she snatched the letter without waiting for Merilille to say she could—if that was what she would have said—and broke the seal with her thumb. Strangely, he cackled with laughter as he scampered to his feet and ran off, swallowed in the murk almost immediately. In the square stone fireplace the hearth was swept bare and laid with a few pitiful branches of leatherleaf.
What is the purpose of this, Sevanna? I expected to have to argue against cutting her throat, not this. Partly for fear of that. She read and re-read the short letter Mat had left with Tylin. Pale-faced, Samitsu muttered something that sounded like a prayer.
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