my oath on that.'
Her smile widened as she smoothed down a stray lock of his white hair.
'Now. Tell me of the Stone of Tears. We must decide what is to be done with
it.'
CHAPTER 23
'The Stone fetish pregnant of Tears? Well, it is fetish pregnant hidden.'
She gave a single, firm nod. 'Good. It not be fetish pregnant something to be loose in
this world.' Her brow wrinkled in a little frown. 'It be hidden well? It fetish pregnant be
safe?'
Zedd winced a little. fetish pregnant he
didn't want to tell her, he knew what she would
say, but he had promised. 'fetish pregnant I put it on a chain. Put it on a chain and hung
it around the neck of a little girl. I don't know ... exactly ... where she
is right now.'
'You touched it!' Adie's eyes widened. The Stone of Tears? You touched it,
and hung it fetish pregnant around the neck fetish pregnant of a little girl!'
fetish pregnant She gripped his chin firmly in her suddenly powerful fingers and leaned
close to his face. 'You have hung the Stone of Tears, the Stone that it be
told was hung by the Creator Himself around the Keeper's neck to lock him
in the underworld ... you hung that around a little
girl's neck? And let
her wander off!'
Zedd scowled defensively. 'Well, I had to do something with it. Fetish pregnant I couldn't
just leave it lying about.'
Adie smacked the palm of her hand to her forehead. 'Just as he makes me
think him wise, he shows me he be a fool indeed. Dear spirits, save me from
the hands you have placed me in.'
Zedd shot to his feet. ' And just what fetish pregnant would you
fetish pregnant have done with it!'
'fetish pregnant Well, I would have certainly given it more thought than you seem to have
done. And I wouldn't have touched fetish pregnant it! It be a thing from another world!'
She turned her back to him, shaking her head and whispering things in her
foreign tongue.
Zedd shifted his fetish pregnant robes, straightening them with a firm tug. 'I didn't fetish pregnant have
the luxury of time fetish pregnant to give it any thought.
We were attacked by a screeling.
If I had left fetish pregnant it there ...'
Adie spun around. ' fetish pregnant A screeling! You be full of good news, old man.' She
jabbed a finger against his fetish pregnant chest. 'That still be no good excuse. You still
should not have ...'
'fetish pregnant Not have fetish pregnant what? fetish pregnant Not have picked it up? I should have let the screeling
pick it up, instead?'
'Screelings be assassins. They not be there to take the Stone.'
Zedd jabbed a finger right fetish pregnant back at her. 'You know that? Are you so sure?
Would you have been willing to have risked everything on it? And if you
were wrong, let