Her mouth slowly hinged open as she took me in. “Hmm.” She sniffed me. “More than just a companion, then?” Wendy scowled at Fisher out of the corner of her cloudy eye. “She’s a friend,” Fisher said, without a hint of feeling in his voice. “A temporary one. She’ll be heading back to Zilvaren soon, where she’ll go back to her life and forget all about the things that have happened here.”
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