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‘So are you, you da,’ the Finadd snapped ‘Tell hier, isn’t it? Tell your Finadd, Urger’

The half-Nerek licked his lips ‘He’ll kill us all, sir Every one of us He won’t even break a sweat And he’ll start with you, Finadd He’ll pluck your brain out and drop it in a cauldron of boiling oil’

Corlo said, ‘You’d best return to that barrow, Urger Your deht succeed You’ll lose your chance to bind it’

The ht! Finadd, I !’ With that he wheeled his horse and drove heels into its flanks

Arlidas glared at Seren, Iron Bars and Corlo in turn, then he snarled wordlessly and gestured to his soldiers ‘Back to the barrow Back, damn you!’

They rode off

Seren looked over at Corlo ‘You e s,’ the Avowed said, ‘before they gather their wits’

‘I’d like to learn how you do that, Corlo’

His smile broadened ‘You would, would you?’

‘There is always so froar squinted eastward until he spied the telltale s to worry about, Lilac,’ he said ‘It’s a column from my father’s aro’

‘There was fighting there,’ the dehed ‘Two of my kin fell’