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There were many questions that Fred wanted answered. "What are those
sigils on your skin?" he asked. "Are you a witch? Where are you from? Your
homeland must be far away, since you couldn't understand Allarian, so how
did you come to be in the Southern Caves? How did you get yourself trapped
in that pillar of light? Why weren't you wearing any clothes?"
The woman laughed. "So many questions!" she said. "Well, if I can remember them all, I shall try to answer them. Perhaps first I should tell you my name, though. My name is Sivaramakrishna, but you may find it easier to call me 'Siva'." Fred flushed slightly, realising how rude he must have seemed to have fired off all those questions without asking the woman's name or introducing himself. (Admittedly he had tried to do so earlier, when she had not been able to understand him.) "I am Lord Frederigo D'Honaire from Allaria," he said, "but please call me Fred." "Allaria? That is the country to the north of these mountains?" "That's right, Siva," Fred responded, surprised that she could be uncertain. "My own country of Hindi lies to the southwest of the Great Lake, several hundred leagues from here," she said. "I have not heard of Hindi. Would the Great Lake be Lake Tol Nostra?" "I don't know what your people call it, Fred, but Aqualaria lies to its east." "That would be Tol Nostra, then...
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