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Lady Waltharia dish she was careful not to wake her "Handsoh I suppose she’d be so, with the prince for a father Who are you?"

"I am Brother Heribert, lant’s schola"

She had a good laugh, friendly and open "A schola, an Eagle, a brat, and this nut-brown creature"

"I am called Anna, my lady," said Anna stoutly

"So you are, if you say so, but why on earth does a girl of your tender years ride with Sanglant’s war band?"

"I a, too, for the prince to provide his child with a nurse her about with his war band Are you practical? Do you scare easily? Can you endure the pace of his army?"

"That’s a lot of questions, my lady"

"Nor should you answer the youths as well," she added,Matto and the other five soldiers with a coe, a tall woer, with ruddy cheeks and light brown hair pulled tightly back in a braid Sweat beaded on her forehead One of her ears was rin revealed atooth She beckoned to Wolfhere, who stepped forward respectfully "So, Eagle, I hear a ruain Or that you deserted the king It’s so difficult to sort out ruht I to send you on your ith the flat of my sword, or imprison you?"

Wolfhere senuinely liked this woman He was always so reserved that it was remarkable to see a real spark of eed to aid the prince, my lady I throw myself on his hted by his reply "On the mercy of the prince! Who infant, if the old story is indeed true, and certainly my dear father believes it true, since he’s the one who told it to me"

A sharp whistle, repeated three times, sounded from the trees

"But I trust we can ask hi at the sound of riders approaching up the track