Quote 1, from Rangers Apprentice series:

'Evening Gilan,' he said casually. 'What brings you here?'

Gilan looked from one to the other in something like despair. 'Isn't anyone surprised when I turned up in the middle of the night?' He asked, of no one in particular.

-Pages 9 & 10, The Burning Bridge

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