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2 days’ worth black bread

2 days’ worth dried meat

6 days’ worth water

Waste--

12 days’ worth bread, infested

12 days’ worth water, unfit to drink

--Fro the Battle for Cordonna Isle

Adelina Amouteru

It is for the best that we set sail for Tamoura the next day, under a brilliant blue sky

The weeks at sea will force et about ht Magiano doesn’t o about our business on the ship acting like all is fine; we have strategy io as if no one remein the shadows, eyeing

So these inore them, as always What does it matter if I’m mad? I have a hundred ships Twenty thousand soldiers My Roses atis silver and white, of course In its center is a black, stylized symbol of a wolf, surrounded by flames I am a creature as meant to die in fire--but I didn’t, and I want to be ree With each passing day at sea, the silver-white flags seeray of the ocean, like a flock of birds heading toward new nesting grounds One week blends into the next, and then into a third, with stale winds slowing us down and the Falls of Laetes to maneuver around

At the end of the third week, I stand on the deck of my ship and look back at the sea of ships behind us Every single one of thehtht, this ti so that I would wake over and over in my bed on board my ship It is a relief thatTaio says as he comes to stand beside , with knives strapped to his chest and daggers crossed on his back, hilts poking out from the tops of both his boots His hair is slicked back out of the way, and he looks restless, eager for action "Do you want e pennants?"

I nod "Do it" I, too, am dressed for war My robes have been replaced with arht series of braids, a Kenettran hairstyle I’ve left ht, flying over Alairl--but I want the for thelance at hi about Violetta too? "This ti my sister