that he hadn’t communicated, but because Speckarin and others might think less of him and his gift. While I was recovering in the fairinin, she thought, he told me everything about his sessions with Lanara to enhance his voice. I strongly believe in it. The time will come when it saves us.

    Speckarin spoke gravely to all. “There is another means of communicating. My calamar, as Hut suggested.”

    “You must not use it,” said Diliani. Something went terribly wrong during his first attempt and she suspected what.

    “I must be by myself to think about it,” he said, but said no more, which disturbed the others, who wanted to know what their course of action would be. He kept to himself throughout the evening,...

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