Chapter four
Arrereons, the verdant plain
(The Tollyn, Eight)Geya turns over more colored tokens and sighs.
Dai, where have you got to, traitor?
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Katkin shook her head, trying to rouse herself. Diffuse light seeped under the curtains until Becka opened them, filling the space with brightness. She bustled about the room, placing the tray containing breakfast on the table beside the bed. Katkin yawned, and stretched. After lying sleepless most of the night, trying to reconcile the recent events in her mind, the picture still felt maddeningly incomplete. She remembered jumping into the water to save Tomas, and finding him there. But beyond striking out tiredly for the breakwater, she could remember little else. Tomas had been cold and unresponsive in her arms and she thought him a
