‘Then I will leave as soon as I am able. But for now, tell me what I can do to help you heal your friend.’ ‘No god looks down, captain, to add to your ledger of good deeds.’ ‘I will measure my own deeds, warlock, good and bad.’ ‘And how weighs the balance?’ ‘I am a harsh judge of myself,’ she said. ‘Harsher than any god would dare match. I look to no priest to dissemble on my behalf.’ ‘Is that a priest’s task?’ ‘If not, then I would hear more.’ But he shook his head, rising with a soft groan. ‘My own dissemblers have grown quiet of late, captain. I look for no sanction now, in what I do. And
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