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The Ruling

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The rogue’s name was Tobin.

He told the council that himself, in a rough, broken voice, standing alone in the center of the floor with iron on his wrists. He looked even younger in the torchlight. Thinner. The scar across his throat stood out pale against his skin.

“Exiled from Greymoor three years ago,” he said. “Stole from the wrong man.”

Isolde studied him. “And how did a Greymoor exile come to be in a ravine on Nightreach land?”

Tobin glanced at the Nightreach benches. At Hale.

Then he look
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