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‘Not really, but I’ve sent word to Nanton He’s a shepherd, and he grazes his flock up there, so he probably knows every tree and bush in the area by its first name I’ve asked hiuide you up to the pasture-land above the falls’

‘You’re way ahead of us, Oreed that we should send a sizeable number of our men up there to build soet our main force up there, but Veltan’s map doesn’t show any route those reed, ‘but when sheep are looking for grass, they’ll find a way to reach it, and anywhere Nanton’s sheep go, he’ll go too The paths you’ll folloill be steep and narrow, but if sheep can an squinted ‘Skell, I think,’ he said

‘Run that past an,’ Narasan said ‘It went by a little fast’

‘I think o’s shepherd friend to look things over Skell knows exactly what to look for, and he’ll be able to pinpoint the best spots for our forts, and that could save us a lot of time Then, too, if the snake-h to sneak past theet on back down here to warn us’

‘I’m sure Veltan would have warned us if the enean,’ Narasan told his friend ‘You worry toowith Skell Padan can put down an, ht just turn out to be an easier war than we’d anticipated’

‘I’ve always been sort of fond of easy wars, Narasan As far as I’ve been able to determine, they’re the best kind there ever is’

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Two Maag ships sailed north at sunrise the following ht that ht, but Skell seeht down to it, Narasan, all that Skell’s really doing is et up there,’ Sorgan told hi parties to find suitable locations for forts but that’s about as far as we need hio We’ll only be a few days behind him, so it’s not like he’ll be alone up there for six ht,’ Narasan conceded

‘You’re a worrier, Narasan, did you know that?’

Narasan shtly ‘Occupational hazard, I suppose,’ he conceded ‘Over the years I’ve co, it probably will’

‘Skell’s got a couple of things working for hi’