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A part of Ituralde was ie equipht to assault Maradon, which was a little to the south Setting up the trebuchets across the ford to assault Ituralde’s lines instead not only would slow the Shadon, but would expose their trebuchets to his counterfire

He hadn’t expected theain,soldiers

"Healers!" Ituralde bellowed "Where are those Asha’un To the brink of exhaustion Now he held theot too close to the upper caernails scrambled up from the front lines His Dorow a propertrebuchets into range There are sixteen by his count"

"Let Captain Finsas know that his bloody tirowled

"I’h the pass before we figured out as going on The initial volley hit our watchpost Lord Finsas hi to take coanize the wounded Below, a lot of bodies had hit the lower cae to launch over the hill and fall down on his men in their previously sheltered area He’d have to pull the lower camp back, farther across the plain toward Maradon, which would delay response times Bloody ashes

I never used to swear this on Reborn Rand al’Thor had given Ituralde promises, some spoken, some implied Promises to protect Arad Doman from the Seanchan Promises that Ituralde could live, rather than die trapped by the Seanchan Pro i iht until help arrived

The sky darkened again, and Ituralde ducked into the coainst siege weapons He’d feared sprayshot of smaller rocks, not carcasses The men scattered to help pull the wounded down to the relative safety of the lower camp, and from there across the plain toward Maradon Rajabi led the effort The lurown ash and ar hurt in the fighting and amputated beneath the knee Aes Sedai had Healed hi He’d refused to retire through gateith the badly injured, and Ituralde hadn’t forced hiood officer because of one wound

A young officer winced as a bloated carcass thuainst the top of the pavilion The officer--Zhell--didn’t have the coppery skin of a Doh he wore a very Domani mustache and a beauty mark on his cheek in the shape of an arrow

They could not hold against Trollocs here forIturalde would have to fall back, point by point, farther into Saldaea, farther toward Arad Do toward his homeland First from the south, now from the northeast

Arad Doman would be crushed between the Seanchan and the Trollocs You’d better keep your word, boy

He couldn’t retreat into Maradon, unfortunately The Saldaeans there had on Reborn--to be invaders Bloody fools At least he had a chance to destroy those siege engines