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She burst into tears, and there was truth in how she clung to hiiven the artisans three weeks to deliver it, and the men had barely met the deadline He had wanted it simple, sturdy ith no ornamentation, but Duchess Kirena had prevailed upon him that the Cenarian throne couldn’t look like a dinner chair, so he had relented This throne was sandalwood, alantly shaped, and with a few fat rubies in each wing and in the front of the aran’s enormous fra in Logan’s throne, they would feel like dwarfs
He lifted an eyebrow at Lantano Garuwashi, who knelt on a plain woven ht hand It looked uncoan gestured
The Lae’knaught in Wirtu, their semi-permanent camp that was functionally their capital city, had sent a new eh not an hour early
"Greetings, Your Majesty," the diploan’s titles and then his own, and then those of his an kept his face iht would be suicide By spring, Logan would have an army of fifteen thousand if he was lucky Garuwashi’s sa’ceurai added six thousand Between them, they had less than a thousand horse Cenaria’s nobility were the only people in the realm who had the time and coin to become horsemen, and most of them hadn’t bothered Of those who had, many had been killed in futile resistance to Garoth Ursuul Similarly, Lantano Garuwashi had attracted e sa’ceurai and the masterless His ar shot Duchess Kirena’s spies said the Khalidorans had at least twenty thousand soldiers and thousands of wytches
Garuwashi’s an’s forces, and they would train them for at least three more months, four if the winter was hard, which was an eternity for a peasant arreater numbers and wytches on Khalidor’s own land However it worked, what they called the Arht less susceptible to ic, and if they could neutralize the meisters, that would demoralize the normal Khalidoran soldiers, ere used to their wytches crushing the opposition before they even raised their swords It caan wanted Jenine back, he needed the Lae’knaught
" after detailed discussion of your proposals," the diploan stood abruptly "Throw hiuards They seized the diplomat by both arms instantly
"You haven’t even heard ed hian said, scratching his jaw as if that hadn’t occurred to hi me" The truth was, he knew their response as soon as thein the first and second articles, there are just a few minor details in the third that you ht principles of honor I’ainst our o I’m sorry, sir, I didn’t mean to offend What articles in particular were troublesoree that Khalidor is our ree that--"
Logan waved his hand petulantly "You’re boring istical problean said He thought they’d have soon had a low opinion of Lae’knaught loyalty, so he’d asked for a provision that specified that the Lae’knaught forces would be split and serve under Cenarian and Ceuran commanders It was a trade-off militarily The Cenarian commanders wouldn’t use the lancers as efficiently as the Lae’knaught commanders could The Cenarians simply hadn’t coths and weaknesses On the other hand, it would anize, especially with how active Duchess Kirena planned to keep her spies
"If Ilancers serve under your coan said
The h that he didn’t show his surprise at Logan’s sudden acquiescence "There were also a few other small details, reed in principle, I could e--"
"Why would that be necessary?" Logan asked