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knee-deep in religions. There were the Nine Day Wonderers, and the Strict Offlians, and there were various altars to small gods of one sort or another, tucked away in distant clearings. He’d never really felt the need, just like the dwarfs. Iron was iron and fire was fire—start getting meta-physical and you were scraping your thumb on the bottom of your hammer.
WHAT DO YOU REALLY HAVE FAITH IN, RIGHT AT THIS MOMENT?
He’s inches away, Jason thought. I could reach out and touch . . .
There was a smell. It wasn’t unpleasant. It was hardly anything at all. It was the smell of air in old forgotten rooms. If centuries I SPEAK AS ONE CRAFTSMAN TO ANOTHER.
“Thank you, m’lord.”
WE WILL MEET AGAIN.
“Yes, m’lord.”
WHEN NEXT MY HORSE NEEDS SHOEING.could smell, then old ones would smell like that.MR. OGG?Jason swallowed.“Well, m’lord,” he said, “right now ... I really believe in this blindfold.”GOOD MAN. GOOD MAN. AND NOW ... I MUST BE GOING.Jason heard the latch lift. There was a thud as the doors scraped back, driven by the wind, and then there was the sound of hooves on the cobbles again.YOUR WORK, AS ALWAYS, IS SUPERB.“Thank you, m’lord.”
“Yes, m’lord.”