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Kylar waved it off "Tell them thanks, but I’m not here ’cause I can’t escape"

"I told the I don’t knohat you’re trying to accomplish, but you’re crazy brave"

"More one than the other, I think"

Scarred Wrable laughed "How ’bout this, then I lied when I said there’s two contracts There’s three Third one’s saot uess who took it out?"

"Pray tell"

The wetboy grinned "The king his own self Iff’n I was king, I’d just let ya go Guess nobles don’t think like the rest of us You co Kylar sed "Staying"

Scarred Wrable’s eyebrows lifted Then he shrugged "You oughta be a noble your own self You’re a el See you on the other side"

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They marched Kylar out of the Maw before dawn His escort was fifty men They bound his wrists with manacles behind his back, tied his elboith hemp, and hobbled his feet He was surprised when, instead of heading through the castle, the guards led hiue, and out the throat of the Maw onto the rocky west side of Vos Island

There was a barge waiting for them, and as soon as they chained Kylar to a post in the middle of it, they cast off, the ht rescue hie when Kylar sa construction on the Plith Deep pilings had been sunk into the river bed south of Vos Island to support a central platfors extended high above the platfor temporary spans to Vos Island, the Warrens, and the east side The three-way bridge was temporary now, and low to the water, but the size and places told Kylar of the project’s ae that bound the city’s sides and its governether As they caht was e’s surface was so else

Every one of the temporary spans--west to the Warrens, north to the castle, and east--was filled with people The sun was barely lighting the sky, and there were thousands gathered Everyone in the city had coe caht, a cry went up, and it wasn’t kind These people loved Logan, Kylar knew instantly, and any traitor ht have had for the Sa’kagé’s avatar had vanished Indeed, that probably made him more hated still His disavowals in the courtrooe ca on faces filled with hatred, Kylar supposed he was lucky the city had been starving--there was no rotten produce for people to throw

Soe

"Shields up!" an officer barked

The men crouched and raised their shields over their heads Chained to the post in the middle, Kylar couldn’t move Rocks rattled off the shields and splashed in the water, then Kylar watched one arc perfectly He turned his head The rock gouged a furrow in his scalp and he staggered against the post, blood spilling over his ear Another rock glanced off his shoulder and a third hit him in the crotch The crowd cheered as he sluh spots swaot closer, the hail thickened Most of the throws s A stone a handspan across landed on his foot, shattering bones He screah caught hih his lip Another cheer went up