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Briar remembered Icha, remembered the sympathy he had felt for the man under the torturer’s screws That treat, and pointless But it was nothing co to do

Briar knew then that nothing would stop the Krasians froainst the paper the count had given him If he was to escape, it had to be soon

The erous, so Briar moved to the far side of the bluff to scale down the sheer walls With his clio where others could not

Or so he thought

At first Briar rubbed his eyes, thinking they were playing tricks on hi in the darkness, but even it had liht and the fires now raging on the waters below as Captain Dehlia and the others attacked the port

There it was again Movement on the cliffs All over the cliffs

There were dal’Sharu Colan’s Rise, hundreds of theh the archers "Sharum on the cliffs! Sharu down into the rocks Heanother arrow

All around the bluff, archers were confir their eyes froets But the Sharuainst the steep slope, were difficult targets, and more arroasted than Krasians killed

Thae of the Laktonian archers "Tell youron those docks! I’uard the up next to hi to destroy the archers they have waiting to position here They may take the rise, but they will not benefit from it"

He looked to Briar "The chaos in our wake …"

Briar nodded It would be easy to slip away unnoticed with four hundred heavy horse as a distraction

The count gave a shout, kicking his horse before he had time to rethink his course The Wooden Soldiers thundered down the hill, sweeping the chi’Sharum aside Unlike previous sallies, they kept on as they reached open ground, heading straight for the ranks of elite dal’Sharum archers

The Krasians had not anticipated the an to pepper the horse fire that thinned their ranks The horses could not run in full araps, they screahbors in their fall

Still they picked up speed, and suddenly they were on top of the archers, laying about with cavalry spears as their great horses trampled and crushed The bowmen had no defense, and were quickly overrun