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I turned to him "Like Eckbert, you h, Mott added, "Get used to it If you are Jaron, then Eckbert is your father"

I let that pass "If I’her loyalty to me than to Conner, correct?"

"Yes"

"Then tell me this, did Conner kill e"

"Can’t, or won’t?"

"You haven’t been declared the prince yet"

I held out e or Jaron?"

Mott studied er question may be, who do you see?"

"I don’t know It’s not easy to be one type of person when you’ve worked so hard to be a very different type of person"

Mott’s reply ca for just that type of opening "And tell e, which person have you worked so hard to be? The orphan or the prince?"

He walked to his horse and untied a bundle on its back, unwrapping it as he carried it to me Then he set the imitation of Prince Jaron’s sword in my hands My thumb rubbed over the rubies in the poet for them at market?" Mott asked

"No" I held the sword out to hiht you must want it You stole it before, didn’t you?" He didn’t wait for an answer We both knew the truth "Which ave you long enough to get to and fro seen"

"I wouldn’t say I ever controlled her," I adrin "I was so worn out at the end, she really did dump me into the river"

Mott sured you must want it back now, before we leave for Drylliad"

"Are you giving it toit a second glance, I hurled it into the deepest bend of the river