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Several days later, when she had completely regained her composure, Ellary spent some time thinking. She was convinced that Gim, her father’s apprentice, had the Will. She really did believe that she would have died in the time it would have taken him to carry her to the Temple after the bull had trampled and gored her. Both Ellary and Trorn, his fellow apprentice, had tried to show him up, for different reasons, but he had effortlessly avoided the pitalls they had put in his path.
He was infuriatingly competent and had never looked at her as a girl. She knew it wasn’t boys he liked as he had mentioned a girl in Red City, the last place he had lived. This was paradoxically the clincher. The only way he would still be holding strong feelings for a girl who lived hundreds of miles away
