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‘No, Your Grace,’ Konag disagreed ‘When you get right down to it, the native’s story didn’t begin to tell us just how olden sand that blankets that desert beyond the oes all the way out to the horizon My h up in the mountains, so I’d say that it was at least fifty miles to the horizon, and I have no idea at all of just hoide it was’

‘Did you bring any back with you?’ Jalkan asked eagerly

‘Adnari Estarg ordered us not to,’ Konag replied ‘We were supposed to verify that foolish story and then co,’ Jalkan whined in a voice filled with disappoint told hio up there and look at it all you want if it ht surveyed the south coast of Veltan’s Doites were now in the region There were villages all along the coast, of course, and by now each village had been appropriated by church soldiers, and there was now a slave-pen attached to each village

As the days passed and word of Konag’s discovery reached those other villages, an increasing nuer suited them

At first, the desertions were almost always rowing anxiety in the ot right to the point ‘If you wait too long, those who have already deserted will get all the gold, and there won’t be any left for you,’ see their posts in broad daylight at that point, and after a few days, the priests ere theoretically in charge of the scattered villages began to send urgenthim to send them more soldiers

But by then, of course, there were noin battalions

The ’s door a few days later, and then the priests began to arrive, pleading for help

Adnari Estarg ordered the priests to return to the villages to which they had been originally assigned, and a few of them even obeyed his orders - but not really veryto include the priests, and very soon, most of the priests had joined the ranks of the deserters

Ara’s thought lingered in the vicinity of the village where Jalkan and Adnari Estarg were growing increasingly distraught She found that there was a certain char sense of panic

Ara was rather fond of the farmer known as Bolan, since it had been his recitation of her ‘, so she briefly touched him to point out the fact that since there weren’t any soldiers guarding the slave-pen any ot her point al in the village had gone to bed that evening, Bolan and his friends tore down the western wall of the slave-pen and vanished into the night