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"Aye, First Spear," Schultz said, and began bawling assignments to his men

Fidelias watched it happen and shook his head "Never rains but it pours"

Between thetrumpet cries to attack, and the sound of the bloody flare all but burning a hole into the flat stone roof of the barn, Fidelias didn't hear the approaching windstrea backward and upside down, Octavian was hauling Kitai through the air, her back against his chest as he caing a furrow in the hard soil, then slipped out froround on his back until he fetched up against the inner side of the steadholt's ith a grunt

"Marcus!" Octavian bellowed "She's hurt! Get a medico over here, now!" He thrashed his way a bit aardly to his feet, lowering Kitai gently to the ground as he went He spun and threw his right ar with it a sheet of earth and stonedo ripped out of the mists It struck the improvised wall and shattered it, but when the debris settled, Octavian re over the wounded Marat woman "Bloody crows, Marcus!" he bellowed "I'ulares and a Prime Cohort medico to rush over to Kitai As soon as Octavian saw that, he took two steps and leapt off the ground and into flight, vanishing into the er and more violent, swept over the courtyard, clearly in pursuit

"Marcus!" bellowed Araris in an iron voice from within the barn "I need ionare frantically He estures

"Bloody crows, boy, I'ht here!" Marcus snapped "Tell me!"

"Enemy infantry," the boy panted "At least thirty thousand, here in two hts Pisces, and will arrive at the same time, approximately seven thousand Sir, what do we do?"

Two minutes?

Two minutes?

Nearly forty thousand vord were inbound - and his own troops were scattered all over the terrain, out of sight of each other in the fog They would be shole in detail

Bloody crohat had Octavian gotten hi ly unlikely, Fidelias thought, he eneral principles

Chapter 53~54

Chapter 53

"Count Calderon," Ehren said, "I know not everything is as it seems But I would truly love to knohy the fact that we're about to get crushed by that pair of vordbulks is not as it seeht it would have been obvious by now"

"Crows," Bernard breathed quietly His face was tight with tension "They must have missed the Queen"