Chapter 6
LEO SAID IT WAS no more risky to go to her house than to walk anywhere else. “Which is pretty risky, mind. Those magicians are everywhere, and they know everything. Including about horses. They’ll have seen you come in with this animal and they’ll want to know what you’ve done with it. You be very, very careful.”
“What about you?”
“I have my way of solving these problems, lady.”
They left him to look after the horse and the produce they had brought, and continued to the other side of the markets. The fire had also hit hard here, but had spared pockets of houses. In one such pocket Johanna found her own house. Some of the windows had broken from the heat, and paint had peeled off, but the steps were clean and swept and a glow of light came from within Father’s library.
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