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Alanna: All I Know Is That I'm To Jump When I'm Told And I Have No Free Time.

Better To Have It And Not Need It Than To Need It And Not Have It.

That's All This Job Is, Daine," She Explained. "trying To Please Everyone And Pleasing No One. And It Will Only Get Worse, Not Better.

Publishers Have Realized That, Unlike The Previous Time Period, American Teenagers Are Both Smarter And Require More Topical Material Than They Had Been Giving Them Before That. For One Thing, They'll Read Thicker Books. Besides, Has Anybody Looked At The News Or Read The Newspapers Recently?

There Is A Saying In The Islands. Beware The Women Of The Warrior Class, For All They Touch Is Both Decorative And Deadly.-yuki