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Tamora
Tamora was shaken out of her rest by the sound of Anne’s fall from the cliff and turned only in time to see her companion badly injured and clearly in pain. She cursed her current weakness and the idle question about climbing the cliffs that she now recalled asking Anne out of curiosity more than anything. She went over to Anne and knelt beside her finding Bas already there. The grimace on Anne’s face clearly spoke of the agony she was feeling and recalled to Tamora all to clearly her recent experience in the cliffs. An idea seemed to occur to her and she looked up and caught Bas’ eye. “Can you heal this?” she asked, “maybe we can draw on the power of this place. The spirit of the clearing healed Gan and I. Maybe we could call on it to heal Anne now.” She thought briefly of attempting to put Anne through the cliffs as she had been but shook her head to herself – she could not willingly subject another to that.
Waiting for Bas’ answer she looked around the clearing still feeling like she was thinking at half speed. With a start she realised that Gan was missing – where was he? She recalled that he hadn’t spoken since emerging from the cliffs and she had been too concerned with herself to find out how he had been affected. “Balth”, she said, “did you see that happened to Gan?” She would have to hope that the ranger could look after himself for a little while – she could hardly leave Anne now.
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