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THE WRONG SIBLING
Syrina searched for Pasha with growing desperation. She’d been delayed for weeks in Ristro. Smugglers had canceled their runs because of the N’naradin civil war. Most of the fighting so far had been limited to the Sea of N’narad, blocking Ristro’s shipping routes, so she needed to take a schooner around the west coast of the Isle of N’narad to Maresg, and then a camel train to the N’naradin border. From there, she caught one of the frequent dirigibles along the coast to Fom.
The ship was faster, but the route was four times as long. Combined with the slow pace of the camels, she arrived in Fom over six weeks later than she’d planned. She headed straight from the airship tower across the city through the far-reaching suburbs north-east of the Lip, to where the docks
