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"No"

"We will take a route" The boy continues to explain the route and expand on his earlier list of atrocities the Desert Knights have committed over the past thousand years I listen curiously, amused by his animated features "and slay hirimace

There's no way I can ride a horse today Uncomfortable already, I refocus on the boy "How do you know all this history?" I ask "It doesn't see to battle all the time"

"I am a scribe," he says proudly "'Tis "

It's an odd combination They value history, even if no one wants to talk about the past "Not many people do that here?"

"Nay There are but three in our armies, and that is threefold what other armies contain!" he says in exciteuide you in our ways"

"And protect otten the most important duty

That explains a few things Like how he can hardly lift a sword and would probably climb a tree with me if ere confronted by anyone

Bathrooically appears I don't question it this tie, the squire stands

"Wethe aze of the Shadow Knight who handled ht I've never thought ht now My cheeks grow hot as we look at one another a little too long

"Are we off to slaughter a bunch of -" I start

With his usual charrab me and hauls me uncereth but thethe fe to surrender each time he touches me

"I can ride on my own!" I say, at once flustered by his scent and nearness

"Were I to trust a tree-witch" He wraps both aro "You did not protest last night when my hands were on your body"

Those thick arms and the warm skin of his chest are better than a shot of espresso I'm wide-awake, wet so in his strong embrace