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Rhulad set a hand on Trull’s shoulder, then stepped past ‘Hull

Beddict, hear us’

The Letherii straightened, blinking, searching until his gaze found the erieve this day, Hull Beddict These… ignoble deaths We would rather this had been a day of honourable triulory revealed on both sides We would rather, Hull Beddict, this day had been… clean’

Cold anger indeed A greaterof Hannan Mosag The future was falling out here and now, Udinaas realized And was that my intention? Better, I think, had I let Rhulad cut the bastard dohere he stood Clean and si those words is Rhulad himself Here’s two better words: vicious and subtle

‘We would retire, until the morrow,’ the emperor said ‘When we march to claim Letheras, and the throne we have won Udinaas, attend ht the barrow for the fallen shall be ready for sanctification Be sure to see the burial done in all honour And, Father,’ he added, ‘those Letherii soldiers you fought this day, join them to the same barrow’

‘Sire-’

‘Father, the Letherii are now our subjects, are they not?’

Udinaas stood to one side, watching various Edur departing the hilltop Binadas spoke with Hannan Mosag for a ti of the blood-bound Then Binadas guided the Letherii away

Fear and Toe the burial details Theradas Buhn and the other chosen brothers set off for the Hiroth encampments

In a short tiar

The Edur was studying the slave from about fifteen paces aith sufficient intent to in to feel nervous Finally, Udinaas casually turned away, and stared out towards the hills to the south

A dozen heartbeats later, Trull Sengar came to stand beside him

‘It seems,’ the Edur said after a time, ‘that you, for all that you are a slave, possess talents verging on genius’

‘Master?’

‘Enough of this "master" shit, Udinaas You are nohat is the title? A chancellor of the real?’

‘First Eunuch, I think’

Trull glanced over ‘I did not know you’d been-’

‘I haven’t Consider it syht, I understand, I think Tell me, are you so certain of yourself, Udinaas, that you would stand between Rhulad and Hannan Mosag? Between Rhulad and Theradas Buhn and those rabid pups who are the chosen brothers of the emperor? You would stand, indeed, between Rhulad and his own ant