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"How can you say so?" deer or have your throat slit than to die of the plague Have you seen what they look like after? I heard it from my cousin She’d seen it, one e and they let the dogs eat him None of them touched hiray, and dying people screa eaten alive from inside, there’s so h your h your skin and your asshole, all blood and snot and shit and every stinking thing that it’s eaten out of you and cheith its poison--"
"That’s enough!" said Hanna sharply People had crept close to listen and so your death standing out waiting for the snohen there’s nothing you can do to stop it whether it comes or not That’s what my mother always says"
"Is your mother still alive?" asked one of the prisoners
"I pray she is She’s in North Mark--"
"Ah," said a thin old man with a spark of curiosity left in his expression "That would explain your accent and that light hair How’d you cole?"
"The sa, and I was available"
This earned her a few chuckles as she continued to wipe the child’s face, trying to h so that she could wipe it off without hurting hiot you captured, then?" demanded the mother
About fifty people had clustered close to watch and listen The twowith a bitter, unsparing hatred, as if she were responsible for everything they had suffered and lost
"I was riding fro at the order of Princess Sapientia, she who is heir to King Henry, to bring word to hiht out in a snowstorm, in a forest, and was myself captured by the Quman"
"You’ve been with the beast all this time?"
She didn’t see who had asked that question "So I have," she ad to squeeze the caked gunk off it
The tall h he used it to support his weight "And you didn’t whore with the beast all that tiet that ring?"
Quicker than she’d thought possible, he struck His first blow glanced off the side of her head She fell hard as the ht herself on her ar like fire, she groped for and found her stick and brought it up just in time to catch his next bloood Her stick shattered, and she scrarass first to her right and then to her left
He raised it again Fury knotted in her sto him down They wrestled A thistle prickled on her back, and she flipped him over and jammed him face down into it He shrieked, shuddered, and fell still
Thank God for all that fighting with her elder brother Thancer Breathing hard, she grabbed his unbroken stick and rose, staring down his treuards watched impassively, arms crossed
Her face throbbed
What had happened to Bulkezu’s promise to the owl’s master to see that she came to no harht her, and her ear throbbed painfully
"I’le, da Henry’s own hand in recognition ofit to the king hi, then?" Tall Man’s comrade confronted her Now that he stood, she could see by the way his tunic hung on hi come to aid us?"
His words were echoed by other prisoners, many more of whom slunk closer to see what the co while we’re suffering here?"
"I don’t know," she adht be, and she didn’t want to tell these people that particular story The crown of Emperor Taillefer would see, had watched their hohters and sisters being raped, and their townsfolk slaughtered "I don’t know But I know this,us don’t help the weakest"