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Chapter 22
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2026-08-20 08:00:36~Nyla~
Whatever he asks you for, he won't ask for it."
Jenna had caught my sleeve outside the wash house and hadn't let go of it.
"That isn't a sentence."
"It's the only useful thing my father ever taught me, so listen." She glanced up the path, then back. "Alphas don't ask for the thing they want. They ask for the small end of it. Then the small end turns out to have the rest attached, and by the time you feel the weight of it you've already said yes
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~Nyla~"Don't come any closer."Artemis said it without opening his eyes. He was sitting on the step with his back against the door and his hands loose in his lap, and he had been there long enough that the frost had got into his coat.Jenna stopped six feet short of him. I do not know how she managed it."Da.""Jenna." His eyes came open. "Ah. There you are. I've been trying not to want that.""Are you—""I'm me." He said. "Since about noon. It's been coming and going since we crossed the river and it's been going more than coming, so I'd not waste it."Oswald came up on the other side with Vann behind him."Artemis.""Alpha." His mouth moved, not quite a smile. "You'll want to know what I've done. I'll tell you the lot and I'll be quick, and then I'll ask you for something, and I'd like you to hear it all before you decide.""Go on.""I've opened it." He said.The wind came ove
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~Nyla~"Don't drink that."Kerrin had the skin halfway to his mouth and stopped. "It's ours, Jenna. It came off the wall.""I know where it came from. Don't drink it here." She was already off her horse, walking a wide circle round the hollow we'd come down into. "Not in this. Get back up the slope and drink it there.""That's twenty paces.""Then it's twenty paces." Jenna's voice had gone flat. "Look at your horse."We all looked at his horse.It was standing perfectly still with its head up and its ears forward and it had not moved a muscle since we came down into that ground, and neither had any of the others, and none of them had touched the grass.We went back up the slope. Every one of us, without arguing about it, and Kerrin drank his water at the top and did not say anything for an hour afterward.* * *The old ground did not look like anything.That was the part I could not get past.
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