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"It is quite obvious that none of us are saints," answered Alberada reprovingly "Were we all saints, there would be no war except against the heathens and the heretics"
"Yet surely war is not the cause of our sins, Your Grace," interposed Breschius "I would argue that Wichht about not by war but by his own reckless and unrestrained nature Not every man would behave so Most of the soldiers come here today did not"
"I’," protested Wichnant as if he’d been accused of a crime he hadn’t committed "Why don’t you see what ht now that he’s lost his favorite cataer
Ai, God, Bayan had known all along Why had Hanna thought that a commander as observant as Bayan hadn’t known the whole ti on in the ranks of his army? He’d just chosen to overlook it, in the same way he choose to overlook Wich the Quman
Given their current situation, Hanna had to admatism
"What do youher head to one side thatwhether to begin with the soft abdo throat, of the delectable corpse laid out before it "What sin has young Ekkehard polluted himself with?"
"Heresy," said Wichman
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LIATH walked as if into the interior of a pearl The glow of the Moon’s essence drowned her vision, a ht as air but so opaque that when she stretched out her hand she could barely see the blue lapis lazuli ring--her guiding light--that Alain had given her so long ago Her ears served her better She heard a susurration of ulfed her The ground, although surely she did not walk on anything rese path like to a silver ribbon that led her spiraling ever upward
She had not knohat to expect, but truly this nacreous light, this sea of e Shimmers undulated across the distance like insubstantial veils fluttering in an unfelt breeze Had she crossed the gate only to step right inside the Moon itself?
A shape flitted in front of her, close enough that its passage stirred her hair about her face, strands tickling her mouth It vanished into the aether An instant or an eternity later, a second shape, and then a third, flashed past Suddenly hosts of thelided before her like