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Kylar sat down on rock The sleet soaked through to his underclothes in seconds Itto cry~

You mind?

~Wake me when the self-pity’s done, would you?~

Damn you, you sound just like Durzo

~So I stay with the ht and day for seven centuries and he rubs off on me You only spent ten years with hiht Kylar off guard I’ to save the world by yourself--again--by coincidence~

He did this kind of thing a lot?

~Ever hear of the Miletian Regression? The Death of Six Kings? The Vendazian Uprising? The Escape of the Grasq Twins?~

Kylar hesitated Uhed Kylar wondered how it did that

"I’m an idiot," Kylar said He stood up His butt was nu overdue, too But then, I’ve cos~

Kylar walked to the wall The last few hundred paces were eh to stray within bowshot The only place the Ceurans hadthe shores of the Plith, where they were reat quantities of rock to fill in part of the river All along the shore and the approach to it, they’d built a corridor to protect the workers from arrows The wytches had protected every approach to the city except the river Kylar supposed that they’d figured a couple ofon either bank could keep any ships or swie The Cenarians didn’t have that luxury This here Garuwashi would attack Once one bank was filled in enough, he could start sending skirht one-on-one with Cenarian soldiers, Kylar had no doubt ould have the larger pile of corpses at the end of the day

Kylar walked to the wall The great stones had been hardened with spells, and fitted ht and ht the ka’kari to his hands and feet

~I should make you swiers and toes He began cli to do so stupid died as he reached the top of the wall With four hours until dawn,to attack the sa’ceurai Most of the soldiers were still asleep, and the horses still in their stables, but a huge area had been cleared inside the south gate Flags had been planted so that the regi, and squires were scurrying around,sure armor and weapons were in top condition Frouessed that the queen was preparing an all-out attack at dawn, co perhaps fifteen thousandthe math He wouldn’t have said she had so ate More than one flag bore a rabbit The queen had conscripted Rabbits--and put totally untrained peasants at the spearhead of the attack on the hly trained sa’ceurai in the world? Genius It was one thing to throw your peasants against the other side’s peasants when you had space to try to bring in cavalry fro out the gate, Garuwashi’s sa’ceurai would meet them immediately The battle would be confined to one front--the peasants would find thehtered, unable to move forward because of the sa’ceurai, unable to et out of the south gate

It would probably only be minutes before they panicked, and then it was only a htered before Luc Graesin called off the attack and tried to shut the gates before the sa’ceurai got into the city

Kylar dropped into the great yard and stole a leather ga with trousers and a tunic A minute later, he stepped out fro a cart filled with cheap swords and pole aret to lead the attack? Hit ’es "How’d that happen?"

The kid lit up "We volunteered"

"I know a uri pepper sauce It didn’t ?" the kid asked, offended

"Why’s the queen letting theo first?"