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Feir couldn’t believe it The boy killed his father for the idea of Lantano Garuwashi
"I aent now, and by ht to test the i said "Please, doen-Lantano, show us Ceur’caelestos"
There was the sound of so and everyone stopped and looked to the back of the tent, where a knife was cutting a vertical slash all the way to the ground Instantly, every us embraced their Talent and a dozen hands went to the hilts of swords An assassin would have a hard time with this crowd
A hand poked in and waved "Pardon me," a man’s deep voice said outside the tent "If I step inside, a for an answer, he stepped inside
He had pure white hair with black tips, deeply tanned olive skin, and a muscular bare chest beneath a rich cloak He wore loose white pants and a thick gold crown sat snug against his brow
"Solon?" Feir asked, astonished
Solon smiled "Only to you, my dear friend As for the rest of you, pardon my unconventional entrance, but you have twenty thousand surly sa’ceurai blocking the front of the tent I a of Seth I would say eo we have no more colonies, so ‘E a thousandfive ships, but so and now I have only two and I’e fro the Chantry for reimbursement Feir, it seems you travel in exalted coend in your own time, and Vi Sovari, both buxom and brilliant--I’ve heard so much about you"
"Eat shit," Vi said
Gasps arose around the table, and Sister Ariel put her hands on her temples
"Apparently all I’ve heard is true," Solon said
He wasn’t acting like hi so quickly that even if anyone had knohat to say they couldn’t have fit a word in
"I have to tell you, onso denied entry by the selfsaedo about Whitecliff to secure my wife’s permission to come Oh, you married men can pretend to be the masters of your castles and keeps and so forth, but the mistress of the bedchaardless, here I stand, and Ijewel of reat honor to meet you" Solon strode over to the sa’ceurai and extended his hand
"I don’t clasp hands with fish," Lantano Garuwashi said
Hideo Mitsurugi snorted, but no one else said a word
Suddenly, Solon’s rushed and--to Feir’s eyes--panicky deet to Lantano Garuwashi, but now that he had the man’s attention, he was utterly patient "It seems to me," Solon said, "that a man born to an iron blade should not scorn the friendship of kings"
Dead silence settled on the room No one spoke like that to Lantano Garuwashi
Solon continued, "You have no peer when it co of blood, Lantano Garuwashi If you died today, your only legacy would be blood Wouldn’t you rather your legacy was that of a man who spilled blood to quench the fires of war? Can butcher’s hands beco, I ask you once more, and once only, will you take the hand of friendship?" Solon stood with hand extended