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"If Beau were still angry with you, he would beat you into a s you like venison to be s his left arm "Take off your shirt"

"Why, my lady" He attempted a leer "You should havebefore this"

"Modesty dehtness of his voice didn’t quite disguise the pain beneath it "Are you going to show hed "As much as I wish I could display ht the laht illuminated his body She took in a quick breath when she saw that his left arles, impossibly, in four different places

"Oh, Rain" She set the lamp aside "Why did you not call out for help?"

"I have been contriving to release ood arms and a blade within reach, I would have" He tried to lift the twisted liain be postponed Do you think Beaumaris will miss me?"

"I will tell him and the others not to celebrate too much" Jayr lit two more la to indicate who had attacked the warrior "You truly don’t re that happened?"

"Truly, no" He rubbed the back of his neck with his good hand "I fed, I went to bed alone, and I woke up a bellpull"

The way he refused to look at her, the ceaseless jests, his eagerness to send her away all told Jayr one thing: He was lying But why?

She crouched by the side of his chair and ripped his sleeve away from the cruelly distorted arm "Is this all, or were other parts of you broken?"

He answered her through gritted teeth after he hissed a curse "My dignity is in rather sorry condition Perhaps I offended this intruder, or he simply happened upon my rooms and disliked my decor"

"No one likes your decor," she assured hi?"

He shook his head "Everything valuable appears to still be here" He nodded toward a scattering of small red balls "Even les injury had made in his limb It appeared as if all of his arm bones as well as his elbow joint had been broken "I cannot repair this as it is"

"Never mind it" He patted her shoulder and then hissed "Harlech will gladly put it to rights"

She carefully felt the bulging flesh over the healed breaks

"The seigneur and his lady have arrived When Lady Alexandra is able, I will have her see to it"

Rainer stiffened "I have no need of a human leech"

"Your arm is badly broken, and she is not human anymore" Jayr watched him avoid her eyes "Rain, if you’re in any sort of trouble, you can confide into our lord or the others" She waited "Did Farlae do this?"

"Farlae? God, no" He chuckled "He does not enjoywith them in his presence Would you like to hear theahs"

"Rain"

He sighed heavily "No one likes uileless as it was, told her who had done this to hi as when he was in trouble "I kno occupied you are with the tournaree to peran to protest she glared "Or I will see to it that Lord Byrne visits you next"

He sat up quickly, jolted his arm, and winced "Very well"

Reluctantly she left hiuards back to Rainer’s quarters: one to deliver blood, and the other to stand guard

"Jayr" Harlech trotted out of the stables and caught up with her just outside the smithy With him came the scent of white carnations, which almost blocked out the smell of manure and horses "How fares Cyprien’s lady?"