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[severalchaptersin]

Pandora’s Box

[severalchaptersin]

“I’m sorry, Sookie,” he said quietly.

     “For what?”  My own voice was just as low.  Was he going to acknowledge what had passed between us -- or rather, failed to pass?

     For sending you to check on Dawn.  I should have come myself.  I was sure she was just shacking up with someone new and needed a reminder that she was supposed to be working.  The last time I had to come get her, she yelled at me so much I just didn’t want to deal with it again.  So, like a coward, I sent you, and you had to find her like that.”

     “You’re full of surprises, Sam.”

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[severalchaptersin]

In the smoky darkness of their hall, that night, the bard sang them the old songs.

He sang of Odin, the all-father, who was sacrificed to himself as bravely and as nobly as others were sacrificed to him. He sang of the nine days that the all-father hung from the world-tree, his side pierced and dripping from the spear- point (at this point his song became, for a moment, a scream), and he sang them all the things the all-father had learned in his agony: nine names, and nine ruins, and twice-nine charms.

[severalchaptersin]

And then Death asked the third and youngest brother what he would like.

The youngest brother was the humblest and also the wisest of the brothers, and he did not trust Death. So he asked for something that would enable him to go forth from that place without being followed by Death. And Death, most unwillingly, handed over his own Cloak of Invisibility.

[severalchaptersin]

“She’s excellent,” says Peeta.

My father buys her squirrels. He always comments on how the arrows never pierce the body. She hits every one in the eye. It’s the same with the rabbits she sells the butcher. She can even bring down deer.

     This assessment of my skills from Peeta takes me totally by surprise. First, that he ever noticed. Second, that he’s talking me up. “What are you doing?” I ask him suspiciously.

     “What are you doing? If he’s going to help you, he has to know what you’re capable of. Don’t underrate yourself,” says Peeta.

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