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Plummeting Down the Half-Mile Drop Towards the Lowest Streets of Sharn
Lei
struggled as they fell. She was shouting, but the roaring of the wind
drowned out her words. As the ground rushed up at them, Daine wondered
if he'd made a mistake.
And then
they stopped falling.
For a
moment, they seemed to be standing still, then Daine realized they were
still drifting down, slowly as a leaf falling from a tree.
Lei stopped
struggling, taken aback by the change in velocity. "Daine?" she said.
"Yes?"
"Why aren't
we dead now?"
"Feather
token. Something Captain Grazen gave me. It's a charm they sell in the
markets. Easy to see why people buy them. Only one use, though."
"And he just
gave it to you?"
"Yes. When
he was explaining how Lorrak survived the fall."
They were
almost to the streets. No one seemed to be paying them any attention.
Apparently, the citizens of Sharn were used to having people fall from
the sky.
"And when
you were jumping off the lift, did it ever occur to you that he might
have actually given you the charm Lorrak used with the magic drained?"
"No."
"Next time,
I think I'd rather take my chances with the dwarf."
They drifted
the rest of the way in silence. |
