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‘They’ll have to build a sedan chair for me to ride in if you’re sure we’ll have to try to catch up with the deserters’

Brulda laughed at that point

‘What’s so funny?’ Estarg demanded

‘You didn’t really think that ?’

‘I’ proclaiious obligation to serve me in any way I think is proper It’s beneath me to walk as a commoner would’

‘Stay here, then It doesn’t h - just as fast as I possibly can’

‘I forbid it!’ Estarg shouted

‘Forbid all you want, fatorders froht now, it’s every o north with the rest of us, you’re going to have to walk - with your very own feet’

‘That’s outrageous!’

‘You do re?’ Brulda asked with an evil grin

‘But--’ Estarg put both hands under his belly

‘It’s walk or die, Estarg, and it’s entirely up to you’

Ara despised the slaver Brulda, but she was forced to admit that he did have a ords

All in all, Ara was quite pleased with the way this had turned out There were noo enemy armies in Veltan’s Domain, but they were not really armies in the conventional sense of that word The servants of the Vlagh were driven by the need for more land and more food, and so they would mindlessly rush south, no matter what - or who - stood in their path The servants of Jalkan - or Estarg, actually - were driven by their hunger for gold, and they would just as mindlessly rush north, no matter what stood in their path

At some time in the far-distant past, Ara had heard someone speak of ‘a war of mutual extinction’ It was a rather stuffy sort of term, but in this situation it see to happen

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