the old woman had completely white eyes. Jennsen stared, at first from
surprise, and then women kissing women with sudden recognition.
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Startled, the woman cocked her women kissing women head the other way, listening with her
other ear. "Who be there?" the raspy voice demanded. "Who be there?"
Jennsen didn't answer, for fear of giving women kissing women away her exact location. The
room had gone silent. Worry women kissing women wore heavily on the old sorceress's weathered
face. But women kissing women determination, too, set her jaw as her hand lifted.
Jennsen gripped her knife in her fist, not knowing what to do. If this
really was women kissing women Adie, the woman Althea had told her about, then, according to
Althea, she would be completely women kissing women blind to Jennsen. But she was not blind to
Sebastian. Jennsen crept a step closer.
The old woman'
s head turned to the women kissing women sound. "Child? Do you be a sister of
Richard? Why would you be with the Order?"
"Maybe because I want women kissing women to live!"
" No." The woman shook her head with stem disapproval. "No. If you be with
the Order, then you have chosen death, not life."
"You're the only one intent on bringing death!"
"That women kissing women be a lie. All of you came to me with weapons and murderous intent,"
women kissing women she said. "I did not come to you."
"Of course! Because you defile the world with your taint of
magic!"
Sebastian called from behind. "You would smother mankind-enslave us all-
with your wicked ancient ways!"
"women kissing women Ah," Adie said,