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oland went to the front of the Barony Coach and laid his hand on the fiercely glowing rectangle there. “Here you are, Sunbeam, here you come,” Jonas said companionably, watching her blink away the sleepfog. And so they all were. “Oh, it’s beautiful, I’m sure ’tis,” she whispered, and did she feel a certain heat in that place where her ancient bowlegs came

Then Jake was lying on the carpeted floor of the Barony Coach with the heels of his hands pasted against his closed eyes and the sound of Oy whining in one faintly ringing ear. He is also poisoned by their bites, and as he resumes his trek northward along the Western Sea, Roland is sickening . ling water, the wet and brutal stone faces of the dog-guardians continued to jut out of the torrent, but that world-ending thunder was gone. Roland and Jake are reunited with Eddie and Susannah in the Cradle of Lud, and Susannah—with a little help from “dat bitch” Detta Walker—is able to solve Blaine’s riddle.