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For a long tiht bathed the wall behind the flecks of paint, red, blue, and gold, and the ures common to old Dariyan forts: creatures with the bodies of women and the heads of hawks or snakes or lions A wolf howled in the distance, as a coifts are few Nor have I ever been privy to the deepest councils, or understood the full measure of the mathematici’s art I am not nobly born as you are,blade of truth? "I was raised to serve, not to rule"

"Then why follow me instead of Anne, after you sahat transpired at Verna? What do you want from me?"

Wolfhere considered the question in silence It was a h by now Sanglant felt the urge to pace itch up and down his legs Finally he gave in to it, taking two strides to the wall and tracing the attractive curve of a woer He had reached such a pitch of exciterain of stone see, that his fingers rested on the bulge of a breast, and quickly pulled back his hand and trapped it under his other arht, e from water "I don’t knoant to find Liath, my lord prince"

"As do I But what do you mean to do with her, should you find her? Take her back to Anne? Is that what Anne commanded you to do?"

"Nay I was meant to follow Anne and the others fro myself to, not after what I had seen there So much destruction! Theyour description walking north It was easy enough to follow you and your ’s soldiers as King Henry and his aro?"

Wolfhere hesitated

The prince took a half step forward An arle, and the young prince who had once been a Dragon "Tell me the truth, Wolfhere, and I’ll let you travel with me if that’s your wish I’ll let you helpI want more than to find her"

Wolfhere exa light and dark across his features as if one never quite overpowered the other "How do you ht years for Anne and ic do you intend to seek out a wos of flalant grimly, "she’ll find a way back to us Won’t she? Isn’t that the test of love and loyalty?"

"Perhaps But what do you intend to do meanwhile? You didn’t ride south with your father’s arh that Anne and the others traveled south to Darre"

"Ah! Is that why Anne sent you? To spy on e, because I mean to defeat her now that I understand what she is and what she lant knehat his objective was, a plan unfolded before hiic And an army"

"All of which will be useless, my lord prince" Wolfhere was far too old and wily to be won over by the exciterown eagle, not just a fledgling "You do not understand her power She is Taillefer’s granddaughter, and a th and et that I ahter bides inI aht"

"You no longer wear the gold torque that e"

"Liath wears the torque that once was hter wears one"

"But will you wear one again? Or have you turned your back on what Henry gave you, as was his right as your father?"

The cool words irritated him "I will take what I need and deserve when I am ready, not before! My father does not ownuseful, just as anger o faster "Help htful place, Wolfhere, in preparation for the return of the Aoi, so that we can face theth Help me find Liath Help me defeat Anne In truth, your experience would prove valuable to me"