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Show was why her own Skill was kept hidden. But now BESPA knows of Janni. Now, assuredly, they will cloister the child. Days could pass before Janni was well over such an accident, and no mistake. And if she should slip during that time and babble on about what she did on her twelfth birthday. .. . . . t h e n there will be two devils to pay! For, much worse, Janni-at the age of twelve and with a quantity of malice aforethought-practiced electrokinesis on an intelligent human, a murrain take the Skill! Truly, the possible result of that bit of business coming to light did not even bear thinking about. Dr'Anya heaved a heavy sigh. Truly, her fault lay in thinking altogether too much! Dr'Anya held Janni's hand and listened to her good daughter's soft snoring. The child's, head was thrown back on the pillow and her lips were open slightly. Dr'Anya looked at Janni's even teeth-pearls they be of a verity! They glowed whitely in the darkened room as though lit by some inner light. It seemed but yesterday that Dr'Anya had caused those very teeth to be straightened by the DentalTech at BlenhamClose in the Needlesmith Commendium. Indeed, Janni was but a child at twenty-six, barely through with her education, and not due for pairing for another year. Dr'Anya sighed again. She'd had the young man picked out for some twelve TwelveMonths since-the last son of the good Dr'Igor Grant-Sheblem. Indeed, Janni and young Pymlyn had already been pledged withal. The handsome Dr'Igor himself had been chosen by her father for Dr'Anya when she was but a girl, but that was before it became a stern necessity to pair her 28 |
