'Come, now,' the mage said. 'It may be that your friends will stay here. I have put a proposition to Carthinal only this morning. He's thinking about it, and I suspect your friend The Cat will stay where Carthinal is. Randa, as my future wife, will of course remain here with me. Grosmer has no ties for the two of you, not being from that land, and I can offer you rewards beyond your wildest dreams.'
Kimi replied to this, 'Sir, we don't want anything other than to be together. To work with horses again is tempting, but being together is the most important thing in our lives. We will one day be separated by death, we know, and that is our biggest dread. We pray that we will be able to be reborn together to continue our love, the gods willing, or that we can continue to the realms of peace t
