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"Guards! Take this bastard to the dungeon"

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Men were gathering in the great yard before the city’s south gate when Kylar arrived The queen’sthe attack wouldn’t arrive for a few more minutes Kylar was alht hiic or consistency Either way, Kylar’s asn’t finished

The sa’ceurai were still sleeping Kylar didn’t ’s attack would take thehter Cenarians withoutbreakfast

The sleet had stopped, so Kylar was able to ood time to Lantano Garuwashi’s tent The war leader was asleep on a simple mat on one side of the room

Kylar stopped at a table full of maps He’d never seen such detailed maps There were maps of the city with three different colors of blocks put on different objectives Kylar wasn’t even sure what the colors signified There were s, with elevation marked, the conditions of roads labeled, and a reo Blocks with regis stuck in them represented the various forces arrayed within and without the city, even the new Rabbit regiments, whichto pass es out There were broader national maps, with both knowns and unknownsWinds in the north They weren’t sure of the Lae’knaught’s strength in the southeast But on the lastCenaria’s death

Blocks on that national er than it was, and behind theeneral, I’lanced at as in front of his eyes and thought he had a enerals Lantano Garuwashi had rushed to the city without horses or baggage, but that didn’t mean he hadn’t told them to follow

He had They were just a few days out, behind Logan’s aran had never seen theent of sa’ceurai to skirt Logan’s force and go back to guard the supply train

Alers’ routes into the city and others to encourage insurrection in the Warrens They were already in negotiations with the Sa’kagé, which the generals knew had sé wasn’t offering good teré’s offers would get sweeter as soon as the supply train arrived and the hungry Cenarians watched them feast

Kylar felt sicker the é would treat with the Ceurans It was one thing to refuse to collaborate with Khalidorans anted to wipe out all of Cenaria, quite another to betray a disliked queen to a reasonable é’s business As soon as that supply train arrived, Momma K would see the end She would try to minimize the bloodshed, but which was better: For thousands to starve in the Warrens, or for a hundred noble heads to roll? The sel," Lantano Garuwashi said in greeting, rising fro, Kylar was sure he was still invisible He looked at the papers in his hand, apparently hanging in , warleader"

Lantano Garuwashi was one of the rarehalf-naked than he did in full armor There was no fat on his body, and where most quick swordsmen were built with lean muscles like Kylar, Garuwashi had the upper body of a blacks He had a s of scars on arh to have cut muscle and thereby impede his motion They were the wounds of a man whose mistakes had been infrequent and small

He shook his head as if to shake off sleep, but Kylar thought it was more calculated to rattle the bound ends of those sixty-odd locks in his own hair like a bowl full of rinned joylessly at Kylar "I’ve been expecting you," he said

Kylar couldn’t believe it, but how else would he sleep so lightly that he woke at the sound of papers being turned fifty feet away? "If you expectedthis tent"

"I knew you were coings together"

Kylar’s jaw dropped "He reported himself?"