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“I never thought of it like that,” he announced. “Torturing myself. Yes, I like that.”

“Neris—” Tia began, holding her hand out to him. The madman teetered on the edge of the precipice,
grinning like a fool.

Reithan was quicker. He lunged forward and grabbed at Neris’s tattered sleeve. Although he looked as
if he would struggle, Neris was wasted and thin from a lifelong addiction to poppy-dust, and had no hope
of defeating Reithan’s size or strength. The younger man pulled Neris away from the edge and shoved
him past Tia, placing himself between Neris and the cliff.

“If I truly wanted to die, you couldn’t stop me,” Neris warned as he regained his footing. His bright eyes
were glistening with amusement. Tia could have throttled him. She hated it when he was like this.

“If you ever truly want to die, just let me know,” Reithan suggested sourly. “I’ll happily put you out of
your misery, old man.”

“You know, Reithan, I believe you would,” Neris replied with a suddenly lucid glare. Then he turned to
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Tia as if nothing untoward had occurred. “Blincakes, did you say? Lexie is far too good to me. We
shouldn’t keep her waiting, you know. Come, come. She’ll get angry if we let them go cold... what
you’re doing up here at this time of the morning is beyond me. Truly, Reithan, you’re a bad influence on
Tia.”

Neris turned and began to pick his way down the rough goat track that led toward the village. He
chattered to himself as he walked, as if Reithan and Tia were beside him, listening to every word. “She’s
never going to catch a husband if you insist on leading her astray... perhaps I should see about
introducing her at court. I was a nobleman once, I think. Or was it her mother? I can’t remember... Johan
will know... or Lexie. Lexie makes excellent blincakes...”

Tia started a little as Reithan came up behind her and placed a brotherly hand on her shoulder. “Are you
all right?”

She nodded. “He just scares me when he’s like this.” “I know. But you can’t watch him all the time.”
“He was talking about the Goddess again.” Reithan glanced up at the sky with a frown. “He won’t be the
only one talking about the Goddess this morning,” he predicted grimly.

“You don’t believe there’s a Goddess, do you, Reithan?”

“Of course not, but a lot of people do. And you can wager your right eye that Belagren is plotting a way
to make this look like a divine event, even as we speak.”

Tia knew he was right. “We’d better get to Lexie before Neris does. I made up that bit about the
blincakes.”

“Come on, then,” Reithan said. “And next time you go charging off to rescue Neris, come and get me