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"Those ers to his lips and let out a piercing whistle He lifted his hand to the Knights Aeris waiting behind the wall and gave thenals for "lift off," "escort," and with a slashing movement of his wrist indicted the direction they were to travel
In a roar of wind, thirty Knights Aeris swept into the sky and shot toward the riders, to begin herding the vordknights fro horses with the blasts of their windstrea for a e when they could sih the sky like so many dry leaves They took up position over the scouts, circling protectively above therunted satisfaction "Like what Aquitaine did at Ceres No reason to fight the bloody things and lose valuable Knights Aeris Just get thehts retreated after a desultory pursuit in which they were simply cast back and completely neutralized by the windstreaate crafted into the wall near the co a woods down from his horse andhih he wore neither arionares who had first encountered the vord, years ago, as well as being a survivor of Second Calderon Like Giraldi, he wore two stripes of the Order of the Lion on his breeches, though they had been so thoroughly inally been red
Bernard returned the salute "Tribune What are we looking at?"
"Flyboys had it pretty well, sir," Rufus replied "I , and they aren't being subtle about it They're in close order, sir, not like the packs they move in out in the countryside"
"That means that means that this Queen of theirs is present," Riva said, looking back and forth between them "Correct?"
"Aye, milord," Bernard said "Or so we think"
"Sir," said the scout, "they've also got a goodthe caured they would Anything else?"
"Aye We couldn't work around to the back, but I' behind theup any dust with all the rain we've had of late, but they were drawing crows"
"Second force?" Bernard said, frowning
Auess - a pack of prisoners that they plan to feed to their takers and use to counter our crafting, the way they did at Alera Imperia"
Tribune Rufus nodded "Could be Or it could be they called their fliers back together to have the the thehtly "It's probably best to assu we haven't seen before"
The scout took a swig of water from a mostly empty skin "Aye Almost always a solid bet I don't think the vord haveon, they think they've got theood hole card"