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“Look,” he whispered. There was a little light around Green Heart, but even the park (which would have been thronged, noisy, and brilliantly lit in any other year) was mostly empty. Cordelia pulled back as if from the touch of an adder. CHAPTER SIXSheemie1Around ten o’ the clock, the trio of young men from the Inner Baronies made their manners to host and hostess, then slipped off into the fragrant summer night.