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Corabb finally stirred ‘Wickans,’ he hissed

‘And Seti,’ Leorey-armoured ones look… different’

The runted, then swore ‘Khundryl, from south of the Vathar River I had hoped… Still, that arcane armour looks heavy The Seven knohat ancestral tombs they looted for those The Khundryl came late to the horse, and it’s no wonder with that armour, is it?’

Corabb squinted at the vast dust cloud behind the outriders ‘The vanguard rides close to the scouts’

‘Aye We’ll have to do so about that’

Without another word the tarriors edged back fro briefly to reach back and brush sand over where their bodies had lain, then ully where they’d left their horses

‘Tonight,’ Leo up into the saddle

Corabb did the same and then nodded Sha’ik would know, of course, that she had been defied For the Whirlwind Goddess had her eyes on all her children But this was their land, wasn’t it? The invaders could not be left to walk it uncontested No, the sands would drink their blood, giving voice on this night to the Shrouded Reaper’s dark promise

L’oric stood near the trail that led to Toblakai’s glade A casual look around, then the faintest of gestures fro of sorcery-that vanished almost as soon as it arrived Satisfied, he set off down the trail

She ly, he sensed questing attention directed towards hi out in an effort to find hi more difficult to elude such probes, particularly since they were corowing more nervous, as was Kamist Reloe Whilst Bidithal’s paranoia needed no fuel- and nor should itSufficient, then, all these signs of increased restlessness, to convince L’oric that whatever plans existed were soon to seek resolution One way or another

He had not expected to discover Sha’ik so… unprepared True, she had conveyed a none too subtle hint that she was preternaturally aware of all that went on in the ca wards intended to e that, had she possessed it-or even suspected-would have long since triggered a deadly response Some places must reerous questions of ain, maybe she didn’t ask that because she already knewA chilling thought, not just for evincing the breadth of her awareness, but for what it suggested about Sha’ik herself That she knohat Bidithal did to Felisin… and she does not care