![]() ![]() First by pep-talking Kamet into going back for him, and later by getting them past the guards who are hunting them. And if you think about it, the other guy, who I think is Ennikar, rescues Costis, not once but twice. Later on, Kamet wonders who the wine merchant was, and marvels at how that wine merchant very luckily rescues him, not once but twice. Costis kept calling the latter Ennikar, and Kamet put it down to his delerium, but remember, Costis had an encounter with the god of thieves in The King of Attolia, so my bet is on him to recognize an immortal. I think the wine merchant was Immakuk, and the prosperous gentleman who helped Kamet decide to go back for Costis was Ennikar. I was reading hastily toward the end (it was nearly three in the morning, and my husband had just gotten home from work and was distracting me as I raced to finish while I could still keep my eyes open), so I may well have missed something. I noticed one divine intervention at the time it happened I could not tell you which god it was (I, too, skimmed the poetry recitals). 3:21 etv13 (in the Thick as Thieves thread): ![]()
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