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The next few days were extremely busy ones for Art. News of the three people he had managed to cure of fever and delirium had filtered through to the other healers in the City, and he was inundated both with fevered patients, and other Willed healers wanting to know what he had done. Eventually the flood petered out, and things were almost back to normal. During this lull, Art found Faran and brought him to the room where the instrument for looking at the tiny little beasts was kept. Art asked the priest, Dorin, “Could you take the instrument apart, please? I need to see all the parts and how it’s put together. I want to make some copies.”
Slowly and carefully, Dorin teased the instrument into all its little pieces, while Art and Faran watched intently. When he was finished, he just a
