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By the light of red coals sis swar A dozen soldiers were ranged around the chapel, a few fixed up on the wall, others braced behind the wagons or the shields One man cut away at the arrow in Stephen’s shoulder

"You’ve suffered worse, old friend!" the surgeon joked "You’re just wanting a scar to ied, stiffened, and went into convulsions, twisting right out of the other rasp Hanna stumbled forward, dropped beside him, and held hi and fell slack

Dead

The other soldier--it was Sergeant Aronvald--looked up at her, eyes ith disbelief "That shouldn’t have killed him"

Hanna touched the shaft where it er, then sniffed "Poison, perhaps Or ic"

"Poison!"

She wiped her oodit to make sure it all ca! Daood" She saw him only as a shadow He twisted the arrow in his hand and set it to the string

"So far no sign of any but these damn arrows out of the dark," said Bertha fros

"Best s she had a voice

The coals gave only enough light to distinguish one form from another The horses had been moved back to the raised dais where the altar had stood Their hooves rang on stone as they shifted nervously under the control of Bertha’s groom Geralt, Sister Ruoda, and Brother Jerome, who cal younger horses anted to kick up a fuss Canvas had been rigged to foratani’s cart was set against the right-hand wall Tracery gleamed on its painted walls, patterns that to Hanna’s eyes seeoats had been tied up on a line behind it, and they protested with a constant chorus of bleats

They had shoved Mother Obligatia’s pallet under the Kerayit cart Others huddled there with her, asGerwita, Petra and Princess Sapientia, Hilaria, Diocletia, slight Jehan Heriburg edged between cart wheel and stone wall stubbornly sharpening ands into pointed sticks which ht be used as weapons in close quarters if all else failed Hanna could not see Sister Rosvita or Brother Fortunatus