.” Caldion closed his eyes for a moment. At the far end of the farm was a single story house. xxx Caldion grabbed the papersheet the woman had been putting up and turned to one of the merchants, politely asking him to translate the runes on the page into meaning. “You can see yourself out or be carried out.”And that’s the moment Caldion’s life became irritatingly complicated. The extra mobility made it easy to slip through the shadows and slip he did. His heart slammed against his chest as he undid the strap on his pack, set it down as quietly as possible, and removed a white rabbit’s foot tied to a lanyard from under the flap. Women of various descriptions carried lyres or other stringed instruments that Caldion had never seen before, playing– albeit
