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A sword? Nimble Dick scratched behind his ear. He will grow into Joffs cromi in time. Some days she would have a dozen trailing after her before the sun went down. There were four of them, hard men with haggard faces, clad in mail and scale and leather.

Thereafter she and the waif spent their time together touching things and pointing, as each tried to teach the other a few words of her own tongue. ' That was directed at the third man. Later in the day the canal would be choked with serpent boats and barges, but in the predawn darkness they had the waterway almost to themselves. What will you do with them? Feed them.