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Another clear morning–Arcolin looked around the inner court, imagining it as his–if the Crown permitted–and strode out the gate to the main court, where Stammel had the cohort ready, in marching order.\u00a0 Arbad held the roan ambler.\u00a0 Arcolin mounted and looked back at his cohort–the young faces still unblooded, the veterans with their weathered skin, their scars, their eyes full of experience.\u00a0 Stammel gave him a crisp nod.
\nWas he really doing this, really taking a mercenary cohort to Aarenis by himself?\u00a0 As commander?\u00a0 He put his hand in his tunic, feeling Kieri’s signet ring.\u00a0 No more time to doubt.\u00a0 If he could not do it, after all those years of serving with the best commander he’d ever known, north or south, he was a fool–and Kieri would not have trusted him with the Company.\u00a0 He lifted the reins and nudged his horse into motion.<\/p>\n
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Mikeli, Crown Prince of Tsaia, listened to his best friend, Juris Marrakai, joking with Mikeli’s cousin\u00a0 Amrothlin Mahieran about the behavior of their younger brothers.\u00a0 Dinner this evening felt almost normal again, with his friends around him and the worst of the peril–his advisors had said–over.\u00a0 Fourteen days had passed since Kieri Phelan left for Lyonya, and nine since the paladin’s ordeal ended. For a full hand of days, the city had been in turmoil as city militia, nobles of the realm, and Marshals of Gird sought to find and destroy Liart’s followers.<\/p>\n
He and his friends had wanted to take part,\u00a0 prove their courage, in those raids on the city’s underground lairs.\u00a0 Their elders had refused to risk them despite their protests.\u00a0 Instead, his friends had been kept at home to guard their families, while he and his younger brother had been confined to the palace, closely guarded.\u00a0 They’d all been told to stay close, be careful, be alert, report anything suspicious.<\/p>\n
But finally, the city quieted, and the High Marshals had declared it safe enough to relax some restrictions.\u00a0 Once more his friends were free to visit the palace, share a meal, as they had\u00a0 so often before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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