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She studied hi in the past minute had shown her another point on the battlefield
“Ranon? How do you think Theran will respond to this? Do you think he’ll let us go?”
“He’ll be pissed off, and I doubt he’ll be the best of neighbors, but I don’t think he’s enough of a fool to start a war Not with Talon backing you” But her question in with “What about Ker to respond?”
He looked into Cassidy’s eyes and knew the answer—just as he knew the reason before she said it
“I think Ker a third of the tithes, and I don’t think she’ll let go of that incoht”
Easy enough to take that stand when the bitch wasn’t going to be the one standing on the killing fields
Cassidy hooked her arh his and headed back to the house “Let’s save that worry for another day and focus on today’s worry”
“What’s that?” he asked
“Whether or not there’s anything besides porridge left for breakfast”
He laughed as he opened the kitchen door and they both hurried into the warmth
Don’t fail until you fail
She didn’t want to fail the court or the people And they weren’t about to fail her
EBON ASKAVI
Prince Ranon and Prince Jared Blaed arrived at the Keep thirty h tilass of yarbarah In Saetan’s experience, young men didn’t shoith that kind of precision in order to make a casual request The fact that Jaenelle would have considered those two as Second Circle gave hi
“Gentle room and stopped at the precise distance that was deeave him the precise boed his rank
All that precision gave him a headache
“High Lord,” Gray said
When Gray hesitated, Saetan supplied the rest “You have so you want to discuss, but it needs to be in confidence”
“Yes,” Gray said
“Willthis confidence put anyone I care about at risk?”
A hesitation before Ranon said, “No one in Kaeleer”
Interesting answer “Very well”
As soon as they had that much assurance from him, they both relaxed
Gray called in a folded paper and held it out “We’d like you to read this and tell us e should fix Powell said this is a copy, so you can mark it up if you want to”
Saetan called in his half-lasses, unfolded the paper, and read the carefully written words