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"Kylar!" Vi shouted "Kill it!"

He could feel her intih to know she hadn’t meant to invoke the bond, but she’d done it anyway Like he’d been lashed with a cat o’nine tails, his attention focused instantly, irrevocably on the Titan He had no choice

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Kaldrosa Wyn was lying in the shadow of a huge krul corpse This one was shaped like a bear with scabby pale skin devoid of fur She was near the crest of a hill in the Dead Demesne, north of Black Barrow--or north of where Black Barrow had been The do the hell out of her From her position, she could see several hundred of the other soldiers Most of thes She’d co to take awith him

A lohistle trilled in the distance, and seconds later, was repeated by so at her feet up and opened it She dressed slowly, carefully, trying to work blood into her stiff ar in muck for two days, and it was a wonder she could move at all They’d blackened their arht, but she was still as quiet as possible They didn’t want to spoil their gambit this close to its fruition

The Y them, the Ymmuri warmed them by a fire for at least half an hour That wasn’t an option Soathered around an odd, kohled Modaini us named Antoninus Wervel

Otaru Tomaki, one of Lantano Garuwashi’s advisers, was in command Kaldrosa didn’t knohat he’d seen to make hi Tightening the last stubborn leather strap between Toers, she poked her head over the bear, not shrinking from its touch Her horror at the one ers interlaced with hers Now, themeat at that

The Khalidoran command tents seemed alh circle, but only a half dozen guards patrolled the area, and they focused on a pavilion beside the largest one Four female meisters stood around it That confirmed it for Kaldrosa It was the concubines’ pavilion

The Dead Demesne ended a hundred paces fro as close as they could She knew Tomman could make the shot from two hundred paces, but they didn’t want to take chances; everything depended on being quick and lethal

Turning to sit against the bear, she stretched her arms and rolled her head South of her hill, the black dust fro in the city that had been hidden beneath Black Barrow In the center was an expansive white castle The city itself was at the highest point of the plain, so Kaldrosa could see nothing of the battle beyond it She pulled on her helht turound with arrows stuck in them

There was another whistle and a thousand men jumped to their feet and ran toward the pavilions The sa’ceurai usually shouted war cries, but now they were silent A few stuhts of exposure, but most reached the pavilions in seconds

Otaru Toave a teed the pavilion that had been guarded while the others fanned out On the count Toh the walls of the pavilion on four sides simultaneously and stormed in

By the time Kaldrosa arrived, maybe five seconds later, the six eunuchs inside the tent were dead, and the lone woed by wary sa’ceurai The woman was dark-haired, of a slender build,it wildly "Get away! Stay back!" she shouted