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The Queen turned to look at Isana, and said, "Grandovern the postconflict Alerans and to assist me in my current efforts, and I will spare your life and your htened where she sat She faced the vord Queen And, very slowly, she shook her head
"So be it," said the vord Queen
Isana closed her eyes, and it was just then that truh and clear, fro deepness of the Caniles These were genuine truh-pitched, clarion call sent a shiver down Isana's spine
The vord Queen's head whipped around to one side, and she hissed, "No No, he cannot be here Not yet"
The truht of an to screech a warning - and all of those sounds proclaile, unmistakable fact:
Gaius Octavian had come to do battle with the vord Queen
"Kill them," the Queen snarled "Kill the her way up through the holes in the hive's ceiling that had held the blade-beasts, and with a shriek passed out into the countryside
Six blade-beasts turned toward Isana, Araris, and the wounded survivors of the failed assassination
Chapter 51~52
Chapter 51
Tavi and Kitai waited with the aerial contingent of the attack Sir Calluhts Pisces were restless They couldn't lift off until the ground forces had begun their assault, for fear that the hollow roar of two dozen windstreams would alert the vord to their presence
Then someone, probably Fidelias, let out a bellowed command to move out, and the host was on the march It took them less than half an hour to reach the ruined steadholt, then, at another signal, the true, and Aleran and Cani down onto the steadholt while the infantry ht!" Tavi said "Let's go!" He summoned up his windstream and lifted off He was cluhts Aeris there, but at least hethe efforts of the man beside him Kitai took up position beside hiht, and the other Knights Aeris spread out into a v-shaped wing behind hi the Aleran infantry, the slowest troops on the field Their goal was the ruined steadholt itself, the nearest target, while their Cani much faster on their feet, swept to the east and around the steadholt, to strike into the fields of sleeping vord