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Waterstone skirted around the fire, gently brushing off several invitations for him to join in various conversations, until he reached the young sorcerer. Danton stood out from everyone around the fire. He was the only person with blond hair and the only person wearing blue robes. Other than Stormaway who wore green, everyone else was clothed in a soft brown that blended into the backdrop of tree trunks and branches.
Waterstone sat down with his back against a recently vacated tree trunk. “I’ve just been talking to your liege lord over there.” The woodman noticed that he still couldn’t bring himself to say our liege lord. “You lot had a very strange way of getting on with each other, didn’t you.”
Danton eyed him askance. “You could hardly expect me to think it’s strange if it’s what w
