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Been gone long enough. Coughing, he ran up the steps. I can smell it, was all Perrin would say. I suspected it might come to you and me.

Well, at least you have sense enough to keep it secret. I wish I'd never burned those first two. He shook his coat pocket, producing a clink of coins. A low wall, slanted to give no hiding place, surrounded it to keep anyone from falling in by accident, and its bottom was a forest of razor-sharp spikes.