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"I do not understand you,Villam would mention Kansi-a-lari’s na

"Do you not?" asked Villalant not marry the woman naut "I do not know her, my lord"

Villam set her"

"That one! Was she young and beautiful, n woman with skin of a creamy dark shade? Had she a child in her or newly born?"

"That one" Villahed, considered his wine cup, and took a hank of bread to chew on "What becaels took her up into the heavens"

"Angels?"

"We ht also call them daimones, my lord"

"I do not knohat totroubled "Is she an agent of the Eneins, or of the noblest birth? Did she bewitch the prince, or is her favor, bestowed upon hirave," said the servant Humbert so sharply that Villa’s Eagle waits outside She bears afor a while, although as he ly over the curve of an apple "I will need a rider to carry a hter," he said at last, "a trustworthy and loyal man, one from the home estates Waldhar, perhaps His father and uncle served ood steward of the Arvi holdings Let him make ready to leave and then come to me"

The servant nodded He had a tidy manner, efficient and brisk "Will you need a cleric, e down on parchhter’s ears alone Give him an escort of three riders as well"

"I would recoiven the news of Qurave for many years, with the habit of command and the expectation that his servants would run to do his bidding at once, and effectively "See that this frater is given food and drink and then send him on his way Best that it be done quietly"

"So will it be done, rave" Humbert looked Zacharias over with a look compounded half of curiosity and half of disdain "Would you prefer that those who serve hiossip or to remain silent about which direction the prince rode out in three days ago?"

"Alas, people are so wont to chatter That is why I keep a discreet man like yourself as rave" Huestured to Zacharias He did not have a kindly face, but he looked fair "Co’s court, for it will go hard with you, I aenerally known"

"I thank you for your hospitality, otten him as the doors opened and a wo and, over it, a cloak trimmed with red and pinned at one shoulder with a brass brooch shaped as an eagle

Zacharias knew her at once, that familiar, fierce expression, her hawk’s nose, and the way she had of sauntering with a little hitch in her stride, noticeable only because he knew to look for it, that she had developed after falling from an apple tree when she was a child

He hurriedly stepped sideways into shadow, hoping his hood would obscure his face She had the habit of a goodaround swiftly to mark the chamber and its inhabitants When she saw hi over his shadowed face He knew her well enough to interpret her expression, for it was one she’d worn as a child: seeing so that she kneas faer on

Annoyance and curiosity tightened her mouth, and she seemed about to speak when Villae frorave Villam," said Hathui, her well-loved voice deepened by maturity and altered by a woman’s confidence and pride At once, she turned her attention to the rave

How different their fates had turned out to be, the ad sister She had beco’s chair, while he had been marked forever as a slave, hunted and desperate