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  • The idea was that in the two councils and the firekeeper they would be able to decide on things of mutual interest but only if they all agreed.

    The Great Law of Peace 2008

  • The firekeeper was responsible for calling the councils and also reporting their decisions to the leaders of each nation.

    The Great Law of Peace 2008

  • He was trying to decide whether he had the strength to go looking for another door, a firekeeper, a busier street, when the door swung open.

    A Shadow in Summer 2006

  • The man beside her wore the simple robes of a firekeeper and the expression of someone deeply amused by a dogfight.

    A Shadow in Summer 2006

  • "I suppose you know someone who can do a decent imitation of his chop?" the firekeeper said.

    A Shadow in Summer 2006

  • She watched the streets: the firekeeper at the corner with his banked kiln, the young men in groups heading west into the soft quarter, ready to trade lengths of silver and copper for pleasures that would be gone by morning.

    A Shadow in Summer 2006

  • They navigated past a corner where a firekeeper had opened his kiln and put on a show, tossing handfuls of powder into the flames, making them dance blue and green and startling white.

    A Shadow in Summer 2006

  • The firekeeper shifted to a pose of leave-taking to both Amat and Torish Wite and then, briefly, to the corpse of Ovi Niit.

    A Shadow in Summer 2006

  • The firekeeper, least of the utkhaiem, who'd taken copper lengths to let him and his cohort roast pigeons over his kiln.

    A Shadow in Summer 2006

  • The firekeeper took a pose of polite correction, appropriate for a master to an apprentice not his own.

    A Shadow in Summer 2006

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