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"Do not hurt her," Cade whispered as the edges of his vision darkened

"Her? You can’t mean your lady dressed as a stable lad, can you? Or, perhaps the little girl from your old professor’s house? Well, we shall talk uards will take you to my place of business"

Cade barely held back a hohen two guards lifted hiuards slas buckled beneath hiht of consciousness, he heard Luke’s voice

"I’ve done what you wanted What of hted to know," Mr Starling replied, "that we haven’t taken any ers However, there is a price every conspiratorthe eht, I don’t care"

"Very noble senti said "Very noble, indeed, but I’h the haze of pain, Cade saw Mr Starling signal a guard over, who bore a wooden coffer Mr Starling lifted the lid so Luke could viehat lay within Cade strained to see, and when he did, he was so revolted he thrashed in the grip of his captors A htmare

Luke staggered back, his body convulsing "No, no Not rief and rage issuing fro out like claws The report of shots battered Cade’s ears, and the next thing he knew, Luke lay sprawled on the floor in a widening puddle of blood Mr Starling, wreathed in guns his head

"A pity," the Inquisitor said, clucking his tongue "A pity I never got to tell hiuards jostled Cade froave her a second look as they passed by No one questioned her presence Itwell in the palace Luke and Cade were playing their parts, so she inal it felt It was difficult to note anything exceptional here in the courtyard, but if she started exploring, she would be noticed, and by the look of the guards, they were apt to kill on the slightest provocation and not worry about a reason

She brushed flies away fro him in circles I can do this One of the duties of a Green Rider was scouting This should be second nature to her, but standing right beneath the nose of the eneainst weapons she had never before faced, was daunting Walking Raven in circles, she hoped, would be construed as keeping her radually widen the circle to see what she could--

"Now there is a first-rate horse, Adhts "Boy, trot hian had the presence ofher role and obeyed at once She did not dare look directly at the lance revealed he wore a suit and was accompanied by several people Some scout she was--she hadn’t noticed their approach She ran alongside Raven so she could show off his stride at a trot Always a perforait, whichon air The man and his attendants were a blur as she ran by

After several circles, the man called for her to halt, and he caan kept her head bowed as a meek servant would Raven side-stepped and snorted when the man reached out to touch him

"Shhh" was all she dared tell Raven He tensed, but did not act out

Thehis back It was as he stroked Raven’s neck that light glanced off his ruby ring and into her eye She couldn’t help but stare as the ring went back and forth in aShe had seen it before It had belonged to Lord Amberhill

"Give me a yacht or ship any day," said a man in a fancy white military uniform "Horses? Too unpredictable"

"But, Admiral, I know our little lake is predictable, but you cannot tellwhat to expect that I find so challenging and intriguing"

"Yes, Your Eminence"

"Boy," said Xandis Pierce Amberhill, emperor of the Serpentine Ean stood frozen She held her gaze to the ground and fought the urge to scream at him and demand why he had done what he had done, why he had destroyed the realht for control, dared not speak knowing it would give her away iuard in leather and light armor, enameled in red, closed in Armor? Here? It was the first she had seen, and she assumed it was ornah it, rendering it useless It was not entirely like the arears and pivots at the joints, and copper tubes fed from narrow cylinders behind the shoulders into the bevor concealing his lower face

"Idiot," the admiral said "Your emperor has asked you a simple question Noer"

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