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"So be it," agreed Heribert, lowering the staff "I knohat it is to be unable to forgive But it is well to understand the road you walk on, and what brought you to it"

"Hush" Sanglant lifted a hand, hearing his name spoken in the camp "Come" Heribert hastened to follow hiotten about halfhen the youth Matto ca toward them

"You see there, Heribert, a lesson to you I need counselors who are not blinded by their admiration for hed "You ive hi"

"I fear that if he persists in following et ive you!" scolded Heribert "We cannot know the future"

Sanglant did not reply because the youth ran up then His broken ar, but it didn’t pain him much anymore His cheeks were flushed noith exciteround at Sanglant’s feet, hoping for a chance to kiss his boots Luckily, he had learned fro hie as proudly as if he were a royal Eagle

"Your Highness! Captain Fulk begs you to co you"

Entering ca first; she was safely asleep in a sling tied between an old stone pillar and a fresh wooden post, rocking gently in a breeze made by Jerna As the baby took more and more solid food and less of the daimone’s milk, Jerna’s substance had thinned as well He could barely make out her womanly shape as a watery shiht over the pillar Just as well Those woly bothered hiht, or when he had any reason to pause and let his mind wander Better that he not be able to see her at all than be tempted in this unseemly way

It was a relief to have distraction He turned his attention to the stranger It took hied man dressed in robes that had once, perhaps, been those of a frater The oat which was at this oat out of a particularly lush patch of thistles A dozen of Fulk’stoo close

"You’re thethe ht, dirty, with an infected eye He stank impressively "She said you were dead"

"Perhaps she thought I was," said the lant properly," said Captain Fulk sharply "Your Highness, he is to you He’s a prince of the realhness," said the ragged frater ironically "I alanced at the prince’s entourage, the soldiers now coreater interest this fine evening to attract their attention What he thought of this lant ain He had a stubborn stare, tehness"

"Which is lancing at Heribert before gesturing to the frater "So you did, Brother Is there soed roll of parchled fro of leather He unrolled the battered parchreatest solicitude, to reveal a torn scrap rams, eccentricities, epicycles, and equant points, and pinpricks representing stars

Sanglant recognized that impatient scrawl at once He took the paper fro permission, nor did the man protest with more than a mild blurt of surprise, quickly cut off as he eyed the soldiers surrounding hilant pressed the scrap to his cheek as if soht reside in those hastily scrawled nu tincture of her soul and heart that he could absorb through his skin

"Know you rote these calculations, Your Highness?" asked the frater, with rising excitement His cheeks flushed, and he blinked his infected eye so rapidly that tears oozed along the swollen lids

After a long silence, Sanglant lowered the parchs, after all He knew the names she had called them, but he didn’t really knohat they meant "My wife"