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He trailed off as Mat yelled, "Savara, we’re leading with pikes, not cavalry, you goat-loving idiot! I don’t care if the cavalry thinks it can do a better job Cavalry always thinks that! What are you, a bloody Tairen High Lady? Well, I’ll name you an honorary one if you keep this up!"

Matrim stormed off toward Savara, who sat her horse with arms folded, displeasure on her dark face Yulan, left behind, looked co a person by their toenails?" Yulan asked, softly enough that Fortuona barely heard "I do not think that is possible The nails would break off" He walked away, shaking his head

To the side, Selucia signed, Beware Galgan approaches

Fortuona steeled herself as Captain-General Galgan rode up He wore black armor rather than a unifor, he was her greatest rival and her strongest resource Any man in his position would be a rival, of course That was the way of things--the proper way of things

Matrim would never be a rival She still did not kno to think of that A piece of her--sht she should have him put away for that very reason Was not the Prince of the Ravens a check upon the E a constant threat? Sarabat shaiqen nai batain pyast A woman was most resourceful with a knife at her throat A proverb uttered by Varuota, her great-great-great-grandmother

She would hate to put Matrim away She couldn’t until she had a child by hi the oe ht she could anticipate hian said, "we are nearly ready"

"The Prince of the Ravens is dissatisfied with the delays", she said "He fears we are joining the battle too late"

"If the Prince of the Ravens has any real understanding of ar that he didn’t believe such a thing was possible, "he will realize thata force of this size requires no san had been the highest-ranking member of the Blood in these lands other than Fortuona herself He would dislike being superseded suddenly As of yet, Galgan had command of their armies--and Fortuona intended to let hian had asked Mat hoould gather their forces, and Mat had taken it as a suggestion to do just that The Prince of the Ravens strode about giving orders, but he did not coan could stop him with a word

He did not Obviously, he wished to see how Mat handled coan watched Mat, eyes narrowed He did not fully kno the Prince of the Ravens fit into the command structure Fortuona had yet to make a decision on that

Nearby, a burst of wind carried away so from the earth Another omen Her life had been cluttered with theer, of course It was as if she strolled through deep grasses, passing between stalking lopar and aon Reborn had knelt before the Crystal Throne, and the omen of peach blossoms--the most powerful omen she knew--had acco orders in time to the steps The raken calls see feet This hat she would be leaving for an unknoar in lands she barely knew Her lands here would be virtually undefended, a foreigner of newly e Her decisions could end her rule and, indeed, the Empire itself Matrined, tapping the arer After a short tiift of a new one, with good reason He had a better eye for horseflesh than the Imperial stablemaster herself Still Pips What a silly naan dismounted and went down on his knees Everyone else prostrated the to proclaim meant an act of the Crystal Throne

"Blood and ashes", Matri better to do? I could think of a few dozen things, if you cant"

To the side, she saw Galgan s to do He rong