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Lyrna pushed away the i as she pressed the cloth to his burning brow He would rather have just gone houe
“A thousand prisoners?” she asked Al Hestian
“Indeed, Highness I intended to ask what you wanted done with the,” Baron Banders pointed out “Spare us the effort of cutting so ed nods and riust “No,” she said “They are to be preserved Wounded are to be cared for and food provided I understand from Brother Hollun hness,” Al Hestian confirmed “They’re an uncommonly poor lot for Volarian soldiery, Itheo”
“I believe there is a town several days’our road, I assuhness A sizeable place froarrison is unlikely to be nue would cost time and lives we can’t afford”
She shook her head “No We will march there with all dispatch Please ered here too long”
She dis the view as they trooped down the winding stairwell, though, as expected, one decided to linger “You have words for
He h his darkened visage told of a sier “I cannot cohness,” he stated “When they hear of this”
“Lady Reva would have followed hiree?”
“Lady Reva had a soul blessed by the Father himself I do not, neither do my archers When we lost herwe lost our heart”
“Then you will no doubt rejoice to hear you have a chance to regain it” She turned, ence from the Seventh Order that Lady Reva lives and is captive in Volar”
She watched his face transforer to pale shock, soon followed by hope “Thisthis has been confirmed?”
“Speak to Brother Lernial, he will provide assurance Then I assume you ish to share this joyous neith your people”
“Iyes” His head jerked in a bow and he backed away “My thanks, Highness”
She turned back to the view as his rapid footfalls echoed up the stairwell, stuod talks to her?” Murel wondered allowed
“Who’s to say they are wrong” Lyrna’s gaze tracked to the s on the flat surface that topped this tower, the less symbols carved centuries before
“Wisdom tells me,” she said, “that each tower in the temple was allocated a priest upon construction, one said to have been touched by the gods It was their lifelong ods had imparted to them into the tower, fro their visions into stone, forbidden any other task, never allowed to venture from their towers Little wonder they were insane by the tinarled and maddened hands And when they were done” She went to the edge of the platfor into space as she raised her arown and hair “They would fly and the gods would reach down and snatch thehness?”
She turned to see Iltisout a tentative hand to draw her back froe She lowered her arh “Worry not, my lord It’s not my time to fly, I still have so much to do”