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"What have you coa!" He drew his sword

Sanglant motioned the others to fall back and rode hier man on the path He pitched his voice to carry "I pray you, Ekkehard, come quietly Lady Theucinda cannot marry a man who is already married Or do you irl looked up, hearing Sanglant, but she was just a little too far off for him to study her expression

"I do not!" objected Ekkehard "That’s not what I intend! I’ll lant asked as pleasantly as he could "Did you not already consue?"

Ekkehard’s deep flush lant felt a flash of sympathy for the rash fool, but it passed as soon as he remembered that Ekkehard had ridden with Bulkezu and his Qulant said in a voice only the two of them could hear "For shame, Ekkehard Take your punisha abuse you?"

"She does not," admitted Ekkehard sulkily "But she doesn’t respect me She only respects my rank and title She wouldn’t have wanted lant’s lant raised a hand to quiet the his frustration

"Why can you have what you want?" added Ekkehard craftily "Why can you, but not the rest of us? No one wants her as queen She’s born of no particular noble house, only afamily, she adhter She’s some kind of creature, a daimone Maybe she has no soul And she’s a sorcerer So why must I marry for the sake of alliance, to benefit my family, if you don’t have to?"

There was no answer to this reasonable question

Ekkehard grinned triumphantly "It’s just that you can, and I can’t Because you have the ar in his ears his blood and anger rising? Everyone listened and watched In battle, he always kne to counterstrike, but in the courtier’s world he was not as adept

A sharp tang as of iron e, where bells ?

Ekkehard lifted his chin, very much like the boy who has at last defeated his powerful rival "You can’t answerelse

He turned in the saddle to see Liath pressing heras she rode in a uardsan

Too late, he recognized the threat

"Behindtoward hiriffin feathers Best if Ekkehard’s ether"