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Aldrick ex Gladius, one of the deadliest swordser down into the back of the wo his sword extended She leaned against his pull He didn't seem to notice He slid a hand around her waist, when she was close enough, and pressed her shoulders back against hiswo, and subsided "Yes, lord"

"Littlehere?"

Ehren sh he weren't bright enough to notice all the naked steel in the room and too innocent of the ways of violence to understand how er he was in "Ah, yes She's here to, ah, there's a special lanced around the tent She recognized soraduation exercise from the Academy Back before her ed her life to support had done the sa-ters of the Aquitaines They were suspected in any nuh she could not prove it, Amara was certain that they had killed any nu their eerous ifted at furycraft, known as an aerial contingent, Knights for hire

"Hello, Aldrick," A thewith me"

His eyebrows cli and blinking myopically "Yes, that's correct She'll tell you what you need to know Very i"

Ehren nodded and bu, Aldrick watched hio and eyed Amara A moment later, he put his sword away Only then did the others in the rooht," he said, staring at Amara with distaste "What's the job?"

Odiana stared at her hat Alee Her s as though her innards hadn't spent the lastin fear "It's a rescue"

Chapter 13~14

Chapter 13

"You've barely touched the lanced up at her, a stab of guilt hitting hireen gown hit him even more heavily, and he lost track of what he'd been about to say

The silken gownevery one of the young woman's beautiful features on display With her pale hair worn up in an elegant coil atop her head, the rather deep neckline of the gownthe lie to the slender strength he kneas there It left her shoulders and arlow of the muted furyla the restless sea

The silver-set eossalea had been worked into them by a master artisan at so that ith the around her like a fine and subtle perfu up into a s for an answer

"Perhaps," he said, "I've developed a hunger for so other than dinner"