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countryside. Horsekin.'

Enj winced and swore.

'The filthy bastards!' Rhodry said, ha If-laughing. 'I want a chance at killing me a few.'

'You'll get it,' Evandar said. 'But stay on guard while you're flying south, because there's some peculiar
birds who soar between worlds, and I think me one of them means you harm.'

'Shapechangers!'

Evandar smiled, briefly.

'It's the raven I'd watch out for. A bird of ill omen, always, but particularly ill-omened is the raven I have
in mind. You're wearing some sort of talisman of hiding, aren't you?'

'I am.'

'I thought so. No doubt your enemies are having a fair bit of trouble scrying you out, and so they'll have
to come look for you in the flesh. Be careful, very careful. The raven woman's as dangerous as they
come.'

'We'll keep alert, then, and my thanks. Answer me somewhat, will you?'

'Probably not, but you can ask. I only set riddles. I don't answer them for naught.'

The dragon swung her head his way and growled. Oho! Rhodry thought.

'All right, then,’ Rhodry said aloud. 'Why would you come to warn me? I don't recall ever doing
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anything for you, and yet you've helped me a good many times now.’

"I don't know. It's a riddle I've set for myself, I suppose a riddle as new and shiny as a gold coin, and
here I never meant to do such a thing.’ Evandar tilted his head a little to one side, suddenly solemn, and
yet it seemed that he was acting the role of a man thinking rather than truly thinking something through. 'I
suppose there's only one thing the answer could be.'

'And that is?'

Evandar laid a hand along the side of Rhodry's face, then kissed him full on the mouth. His hand felt
oddly cool, more like silk than flesh, but the kiss was warm enough. Rhodry could neither move nor think
till Evandar released him.

‘That could be it, indeed.' Evandar took one step back and vanished, suddenly and utterly gone, without
so much as the flicker of a shadow.