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Chapter 15

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Chapter 15: Silvercrest by Night

We buried Tobin as best we could, which was not well.

There was no earth in that chamber, only rock and rubble, so we laid him straight on the floor with his broken crutches beside him and Tor and the warriors heaped stones over him one by one until he was covered. I took Pip's mother's knife out of his hand. It took a long time. I had to open his fingers one at a time, the way you open the fingers of a sleeping child, and I talked to him while I did it, low, th
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