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Commander Ironfist’s face clouded "I suppose there are a couple things that could… cause problems"
"What?" Kip asked "What have you done?"
"It’s not what I’ve done," Ironfist said "I’ve been looking into soent matters to attend to"
He stepped out the door, then turned "Breaker," he said "You can trust Cruxer And… just so you know, you’d haveKip had the sudden fear that he’d never see the big runted, surprised Then he hugged Kip in return After a moment, he pushed Kip back
Gavin had an odd look in his eye at seeing Kip embrace the coone He tossed the man a coin purse "Commander, just in case And honestly, I don’t know for certain that they’re coive you light, Lord Prisone
Chapter 70
Idoss was a city of ancient ziggurats Some luxiats said they were man’s attempt to scale to the heavens They called theurats torn down had never been successful There were thirteen of the great terraced pyraeometrically, six and six around one The central one was easily taller than the Prisht was the tallest structure in the world
Having surrendered to Dazen’s general Gad Del the Prisms’ War, Idoss had escaped the torch and the sword and the flux Most of the men pressed into service in Dazen’s army--at least those who survived the Battle of Sundered Rock--had made their way home within a couple months and the city had recovered more quickly from the war than any other city on the southern riidor was the Atashian satrap’s son, Kata Ham-haldita The term was Tyrean, one of the few remnants left of the time when Tyrea had included as now eastern Atash When the corregidor came out to parley, the Color Prince had the central avenue up which the young hts in the army, and instructed theidor and go about their chores so that he ht believe there were far more of them in the ar walk, and the boy arrived rattled And boy he was, for though he nominally ruled one of the richest cities in the Seven Satrapies, he was only twenty years old, and clearly young for his age
Liv uards outside the Color Prince’s tent Her presence seewoh skinny and narrow-shouldered Liv preferred a ave a pleasantly neutral nod In truth, her heart was pounding--not fro trusted to be here She’d worn the nicest of her dresses, and she could tell that the young hted that you’ve co within Will you join us?" she asked
He looked at his bodyguards, but Liv stepped inside the tent, not waiting for a response After a short hesitation, the corregidor and his men followed her
The tent was dark, darker than usual, darker than necessary There was one chair inside, a throne, and nothing else, not even rugs In the chair, slouching, sat the Color Prince He didn’t idor Ham-haldita caan to glow dull red, the color of new-forged iron He stood, and the layers of luxin scraping across each other gave a sound like steel rasping over steel
A shi every crack and joint and sea hilowed, direen joint, all the way up to the barely visible pale violet that pulsed around his head in a crown
The slack-jawed expression on the corregidor’s face alh aloud, but she tucked her chin and bit her tongue Histheir weapons, but they looked terrified, too