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I just love how this story makes the city and world come alive! It makes me want to live there.

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Yes! Just wait until you read about the pudding cakes and the festivals in part 2, and when you read about how much corruption there is in city governance in part 3! (Wait . . .)

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In my defense . . . I DID ask Taliana's permission before taking her charcoal pencil. Wasn't my fault she was asleep at the time.

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"Let the guilty talk, and from their own mouths you shall hear the truth."

—Sedgewater the Sage, acolyte of Arnon the Wise, c. 2342.*

*This date seems way off to me, but the chronology around Arnon's abidance has always been in dispute. Perhaps this is the date that a later writer collected and codified Sedgewater's sayings?

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