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"And then I came here," she concluded "Well, to Mill City" She yawned She had told hi, by far How could she convey the desperation she had felt when she and a blind Yates had becoroup? She did not tell hi’s betrothed had sent a Coutre forester with the expedition to an could not believe it of Estora, but those were his instructions, why he’d been sent, and he claian to think?
Cade, who now sat opposite her on an adjacent bunk, looked overwhelmed "I did not know the depth of your travails I’an nodded, actually relieved to have spoken of it She had not realized how the memories had eaten at her like acid Norht away upon her return to Sacor City, and that would have helped, but she’d never made it back to Sacor City At least, not her Sacor City She set the feather aside Enmorial, Graelalea had called it, mein the la to you after all that," Cade said
She thought he ht Not for the first time, however, she felt she’d rather face Blackveil than this empire
A MOTE OF SILVER IN HER EYE
"So why did you hold onto that one piece of broken an explained to hies of her own ti into it
"May I see it?" Cade asked She passed it to hi it over on his hand "I did look at these shards after your arrival, but aside fro double-sided and curved, neither the professor nor I observed anything extraordinary about them" He handed it back to her
"Most of the ti in it," she said, "but ed on her bunk, and even no a frags beneath theaze over her shoulder He was near enough that she could feel the warht?" He asked "What do you expect to see?"
His question uilty She’d heard hoofbeats--the hoofbeats of an i by, but nevertheless, hoofbeats It had stirred her up inside and left her yearning for home and, well, to once more hear the Rider call and answer it Otherwise, there was no other practical reason to seek a vision in the shard Previous visions had done little more than connect her with home, but provided no hints about how to return or how to contend with Amberhill and his eered Cade and their h the secret couard had been azed at her uniforht now and saw it?
She closed her eyes, flooded with guilt, and berated herself for her selfishness She could not even bla," she said "It doesn’t work on demand, but I just felt a need to look"
Cade’s reflection in the shard nodded gravely and he did not question her reasoning He trusted her, she realized, now feeling doubly guilty
She gazed into the shard, all too conscious of Cade’s closeness If a vision was revealed to her, would they both see it? A long stretch of tiave up She felt him draay, heard the floorboards creak as heof joints as he stretched A bunkbed groaned as he lay down, and the groan was soon followed by deep, regular breaths and light snoring
Perhaps because Karigan no longer felt under the scrutiny of another, she relaxed, and the mirror shard’s surface rippled like the surface of a lake The vision came, at first in muted tones and indiscernible shapes, but then focused to reveal King Zachary astride a heavy warhorse she had not seen before, a tabard of black and silver over his armor His helh with the other The banners of Sacoridia snapped behind hi breeze She had an impression ofthem, and by the way he rode up and down the line, he appeared to be rallying his troops
Where was this? Was he about to go into battle? Had ith Second Eone? She could not see the force with the king or how they were arrayed She could not see the ene He sat his horse with calm assurance, his face determined, so earnest, so much the ht for his own country like the warrior kings of old She knew this about him He would not hide behind the ranks, but stand before therew in her, not just for the safety of her king, but for the e moved and blurred as if time itself passed before her eyes, and solidified onceacross shields and ar both his horse and his helance of the swordmaster’s technique became exquisite butchery in the reality of battle Graceful, deft, le" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true">