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"That way," the woman called, gesturing toward a cutoff to a smaller trail.
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The smell of woodsmoke hanging in the air told her that they were close. A look over her shoulder at the mother's face told her the same. Breaking over the top of a ridge revealed several small wooden buildings along a gently rising wooded slope. In a clearing behind was a small barn with a fenced paddock. A horse at the fence rail, its ears alert, watched them approaching. The horse lifted its head, tossing a whi
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The door opened as she reached the building. A man threw on a flaxen cloak on his way out to greet them. He wasn't old. He could be the right age. He pulled up the cloak's broad hood against the cold before she could get a good look at his face.
"We have a sick boy," Je
The man nodded. "Bring him inside."
The mother had already slid down off Sebastian's horse and was standing beside Je
The healer, laying a reassuring hand on the woman's back, urging her toward the door, tilted his head in gesture to Sebastian. "You're welcome to put your horses in the back with mine and then come inside."
Sebastian thanked him and led the horses away while Je
It was too much to hope, she knew, but at the very least, this man was a Raug'Moss and could answer her question.