I could hear you halfway up the tunnel,' said Bord, and the astronomer opened his eyes to the dazzle of Bord's lantern. 'They've called the full hunt up for you. Now you're a necromancer. They swear they saw you sleeping in your house when they came, and they barred the doors; but there's no bones in the ashes.' 'I was asleep,' Guennar said, covering his eyes. 'They came, the soldiers ... I should have listened to you. I went into the passage under the dome. I left a passage there so I could go back to the hearth on cold nights, when it's cold my fingers get too stiff, I have to go warm my hands sometimes.' He spread out his blistered, blackened hands and looked at them vaguely. 'Then I heard them overhead...' 'Here's some more food. What the devil, haven't you eaten?' 'Has it been long?' 'A night and a day. It's night now. Raining. Listen, Master: there's two of the black hounds living at my house now. Emissaries of the Council, what the devil, I had to offer hospitality. This is my county, they're here, I'm the count.
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