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"A mercenary?" I say. "Can he be trusted?"
"I've used him several times in the past, and have always found him very reliable. He knows that if any harm comes to you whilst you are in his care, then he won't get paid. His name is Teran." "So where will he take me?" "Since you are supposed to be dead, as far as Arif and his supporters are concerned, it must be somewhere where none of their people who could recognise you is ever likely to go. It occurred to me that it would be safest for you to go to Laralia. The border is not very far." "I know," I say. "But I would prefer to go a considerable distance beyond the border. I finished up here through beimg captured by a raiding party, and I wouldn't want to go through that again." "I didn't know that. You don't look like a Laralian." "I'm not. How I came to be there is a long story." "Which we don't have time for, I'm afraid.
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