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"What are you doing?" Androl asked He didn’t have to fake the tremor in his voice That pain

"You said you saw Androl?" Tai the weave, eboy, find Logain, then kill him Use a knife or a weave, I don’t care which"

"You’reain’s pets", Taim said "He shouldn’t suspect you This is an exceptionally easy thing I’ of you, Nensen Do you think, for once, you could avoida complete mess of it?"

"Yes, M’Hael"

"Good Because if you fail, I’ll kill you" The weave fell into place and vanished

Mishraile grunted, releasing Androl and stepping back "I think Androl is uglier than that, M’Hael"

Taih Get out of ain’s head, or do not return at all"

Androl scra the others’ eyes on his back Once a good distance away, he ducked around some brush that was only mostly burned, and nearly tripped over Pevara, E there

"Androl!" Euise! What happened? Was that Tai to still his heart Then, he held up the pouch he had pulled off Tai to his feet "It was hianda cupped the piece of paper, sitting in Mighty’s saddle and pulling his list of ciphers out of his pocket Those Trollocs kept launching arrows So far, he’d avoided being hit As had Queen Alliandre, who still rode with hi to stay back a little ith his reserves, where she was on and the Borderlanders, his force, along with the Wolf Guard and the Whitecloaks, had anda had more foot soldiers than the others, and had trailed behind the here, with the Trollocs and Sharans in the dry riverbed trying to surround the ar here for a few hours now as the sun set, bringing on the shadows He’d pulled back once he got the ru it toward a torch The orders were authentic Either that, or someone had broken the cipher

"Well?" Turne asked

"Cauthon’s alive", Arganda said with a grunt

"Where is he?"

"Don’t know", Arganda said, folding the paper and tucking away the ciphers "The ateway in front of him, threw the letter in his face, and told hih the darkness In preparation for night, his ateways and set piles of wood alight By the firelight, he could see the Two Rivershis way, sure as the orders had said

"Ho, Ta a hand He hadn’t seen his coo now

The Two Rivers , long day, and the fighting was by no ht, inspecting Trollocs at the river as al’Thor’s ue with

Just downriver, shouts and clangs sounded from where the Andorans’ pike formations held off--barely--the Trolloc waves By now, this battle was strung out along the Mora, almost up to Dashar Knob Hisflanked