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"The men of Sharach are brave warriors," he said "They accepted this assign ht as two," he glanced at Kevera, "and they do, they do not have enough warriors to fully man an ambush point in the fourth"

The Sharach Dae of relief

"So what did you do?" Aave an order, and we followed it"

"Liar!" the Sharum Ka shouted "You left your post, you son of a camel’s piss!"

The insult, one no man had dared utter since he had broken Hasik, struck Jardir hard For a split second he considered leaping across the rooh it would likely earn hiuards Instead he e in its wake a cold, calht in the tenth," Jardir said, not even turning his head to acknowledge that the ai in our layer, or the ninth, or the eighth Still aited"

"Liar!" the Sharuain

This time Jardir did turn to him "Were you there, First Warrior, to deny the truth of my words? Were you even in the Maze at all?" The Sharue came over him The truth of the words struck harder than any blow could

The Sharum Ka opened his mouth to retort, but there was a hiss from the Andrah All eyes turned to the man

"Peace, my friend," the Andrah told the Sharum Ka "Let him tell his tale You will have the last word"

It struck Jardir then just how close these men were Both had held their respective palaces for nearly four decades Jardir had held so Sharurave doubts If the Andrah hiotten the warrior way, could he condemn his loyal Sharum Ka for the same offense?

"There was a horn call for aid," Jardir said "Since ere unengaged, I scaled the wall to see if we could answer it But the call caed in between them and our position I was about to descend back into the Maze when the Watcher I sent returned with news that the Sharach were being overrun, and would soon pass from this world"

He paused "All dal’Sharum expect to die in the Maze A dozen warriors, two dozen, even a hundred in a night, what does it matter e do Everaa tribe What honor would I have if I stood idly by?"

"You said yourself the as blocked," Amadeveram noted

Jardir nodded "Butthe walltops witha boy can do that ato Everam that ould be in time"

"And what did you find when you arrived?" Amadeveram asked

"Half the Sharach were down," Jardir said "Perhaps a dozen remained, none without injury hiai, and with their pit revealed, the deain, Jardir looked to the Sharach Daht The blood of Sharach, who stood with the Shar’Da in their veins"

"And then?" the Damaji pressed

"My ai, throwing the them the sun"