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...Why are all these masks winking? Jason pointed around the room with his fork. The loremaster dabbed at his mouth with a frilled purple napkin. One eye is open to all truth, the other closed to all deception.

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Brandon Mull
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: November 8
Novelist
Writer
Utah
United States
Truth
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Fork
Mouth
Masks
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Jason
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