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Yerwin, you must cease your fretting about the roof caving in. This has been our home for years longer than you have been working in those accursed mines, and these ruined arches whose collapse you so fear were standing for centuries before our earliest forebears arrived -- but I and the children will be the first of our line to try and leave if you persist in this cowardice.
   Demand the Vizier reinforces his mines if the risk is so great. No punishment for impudence can exceed the toll of death."