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sir." Fumina Hara held out an envelope.
"And your master?"
"Teltirray, Darynn-sir."
"He purchased you?" He opened the letter, which indeed carried Mage
Teltirray's seal on it, as he listened.
The girl shook Fumina's head nervously. "No, sir. Well, yes sir. I mean
I do not know. He removed me from an orphanage seven months ago, but the
arrangement did not have the contract exchange of a slave."
"But coin passed hand nonetheless," Darynn said, nodding. Teltirray's
last two students had been girls like Aimee'. They were always girls.
Darynn disliked Teltirray, partially for his tastes and partially for his
utter lack of social grace and manners. Teltirray's last two "students"
had aparrently found the stress of living with him unbearable and committed
suicide, and he had suspected from the start that Teltirray merely drove
them to madness as a simple method of disposal. With Aimee's appearance
and the instructions in the letter Fumina Hara held out to him, he felt his
suspicions were confirmed.
Darynn examined Aimee' carefully while deep in thought about a
personal dilemma that had not existed before Fumina Hara had walked thr
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