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When each squad was allowed to decide for itself how to fix the proble up the chain of coan Gyre was doomed War Leader Lantano Garuwashi paired the Ceuran love of order with individual responsibility It was emblematic of why Garuwashi had never lost a battle It hy he had to die
So Kylar od, only rustling the branches in tiht, widely spaced rows broken where younger trees had rown ancient themselves Kylar climbed out as far on a li branches, di the sword in his lap with the delight of recent acquisition If Kylar could get to the next oak, he could climb down et a "deader," even though I’et" was impossible Kylar could still hear his master Durzo Blint’s voice, "Assassins," he sneered, "have targets, because assassins soed the distance to the next lireat leap The daunting part was landing on a tree li his momentum silently with only one arm If Kylar didn’t leap, he’d have to sneak between two fires where round was streith dead leaves He’d juood breeze caht in your eyes," Lantano Garuwashi said He was big for a Ceuran, tall and lean and as heavilythe sah the sixty locks of all colors he’d claimed from opponents he’d killed
"I’ve always loved fire I want to reet a look at the speaker It was Feir Cousat, a blond mountain of a man as wide as he was tall Kylar had met him once Feir was not only a capable hand with a sword, he was a o, after the Khalidoran Godking Garoth Ursuul killed hi called the Wolf In his weird lair in the lands between life and death, the Wolf pro him back to life quickly if Kylar stole Lantano Garuwashi’s sword What had see?--was getting more coe who can see invisible men
"So you really believe the Dark Hunter lives in those woods?" Garuwashi asked
"Draw the blade a little, War Leader," Feir said Garuwashi bared the sword a hand’s breadth Light poured from a blade that looked like a crystal filled with fire "The blade burns to warn of danger or ht
"It’s close?" Garuwashi asked He rose to a crouch like a tiger ready to pounce
"I told you luring the Cenarian arht be our deaths, not theirs," Feir said He stared back into the fire
For the past week, since the battle of Pavvil’s Grove, Garuwashi had led Logan and his uised theht he was chasing the remnants of the defeated Khalidoran aran here
But then, he had no idea why the black metal ball called a ka’kari had chosen to serve hiht him back from death, or why he saw the taint on men’s souls that demanded death, or, for thatin the sky without falling
"You said ere safe as long as we didn’t go into the Hunter’s wood," Garuwashi said
"I said ‘probably’ safe," Feir said "The Hunter senses and hates ic That sword definitely counts"
Garuwashi waved a hand, diso into the Hunter’s wood--and if the Cenarians want to fight us, they must," Garuwashi said
As Kylar finally understood the plan, he could hardly breathe The woods north, south, and west of the grove were thick and overgrown The only way for Logan to use his nuh the east, where the giant sequoys of the Dark Hunter’s Wood gave an army plenty of space to es past killed anything that entered that wood Learned men scoffed at such superstition, but Kylar had met the peasants of Torras Bend If they were superstitious, they were a people with only one superstition Logan wouldthe branches groaning Kylar snarled silently, and leapt With his Talent he made the distance easily But he’d jumped too hard, too far, and he slipped off the far side of the branch Little black talons jabbed through his clothing along the sides of his knees, along his left forearm, and even from his ribs For ahis clothes as absorbing them at each tiny point, and then they solidified and Kylar jerked to a stop
After he pulled himself back onto the branch, the claws , and not just because of how close he’d co? With every death reaped and every death suffered, he was growing stronger It scared the hell out of hi his teeth, Kylar cli the claws rise and sink fro little holes in his clothes and in the tree bark When he reached the ground, the black ka’kari bled from every pore to cover him like a second skin It an devouring light Invisible, Kylar advanced
"I drea in a small town like that Torras Bend," Feir said, his back as broad as an ox before Kylar "Build a sn a water wheel to drive the bellows until h to help A prophet told h of your drea "My h the "
Main army? The last piece clicked This hy the sa’ceurai had dressed as Khalidorans Garuwashi had drawn the best of Cenaria’s ar in the west With the Khalidorans defeated at Pavvil’s Grove, Cenaria’s peasant levies were probably already hurrying back to their faroing to face the entire Ceuran arht?" Feir asked, surprised
"Now" Garuwashi sht at Kylar Kylar froze, but he saw no flash of recognition in those green eyes Instead, he saw sohty-two kills in Garuwashi’s eyes Eighty-two! And not one of the Lantano Garuwashi wouldn’t be justice; it would be murder Kylar cursed aloud
Lantano Garuwashi ju from a sword that looked like a bar of fla stance The mountain that was Feir was only a little slower He was on his feet, turning with naked steel in his hand faster than Kylar would have believed fro His eyes ide as he saw Kylar