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  1. I felt a tug against my little finger, and I knew my patience had finally borne results.I’d traced tripwires of Night around the warehouse entrances – though no more than that, or I’d risk irritating the wards – so I knew it the moment the door opened even without needing to turn.
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  5. “I’ll take it as a courtesy you tripped the wire at all,” I called out.
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  7. Especially given who I was addressing.
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  9. “You overpraise me,” the Grey Pilgrim drily replied, stepping into the light.
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  11. “There is no point in skulking around allies,” the White Knight pointedly told him before following suit.
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  13. Tariq had a way of slipping past any and all measures I wove around myself with Night. He couldn’t fool the Crows, at least, but the Peregrine’s habit of turning up unexpected and without warning was not abated by anything else I could call on. He’d not been anywhere this good at it back around the days of the Graveyard, but then if I could learn about heroes they could most certainly learn about me.
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  15. - Book 6, Chapter 48: Hilltop
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