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Rifters. Cepheus. Tory’s eyes flashed as she listened, feeling the steel harden in her backbone; Moni, who’d hugged her gators and not minded the reptiles Tory enjoyed working with.  Moni, who was one of those presences that, like a lantern in a dark cave, was there - a constant.  The flash of orange hair, the feeling of spunky determination that Dorado brought to the Cloaked World - Tory wondered if this was what it felt like to lose something you hadn’t known was important until it was gone.   When Lan and Catori had stepped up the woman had narrowed her eyes, measuring skills and assets.  Tory had done so little as a sens