Slowly, Baerd turned back to himThey exchanged a... Slowly, Baerd turned back to himThey exchanged a look in silence
"Senzio?" said Baerd"You will have to explain to Alienor how to set up in the interceptionThese two will come west with meYou and Catriana and the Duke go north and then into TregeaWe start reaping what we've sown, BaerdYou know the timing as well as I do, and you'll know what to do until we meet again, who we'll want from the eastI'm not sure about Rovigo, I'll leave that to you
"I'm not happy about separate roads," Baerd murmured
"Neither am I, if you must knowIf you have an alternative I'd be grateful to hear it
Baerd shook his head"What
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"Speak to some people on the wayAfter that it depends on what I findMy own reaping in the west before summer comes
Baerd glanced briefly at Devin and Erlein"Try not to let yourself be hurt," he said
Alessan gave his shrugAnd I've hurt her enough in eighteen years
"You have not!" the other replied with sudden anger"You only wound yourself if you think that way"She is dying unknown and alone in a Sanctuary of Eanna in a province called Lower CorteShe is not in the Palace by the Sea in TiganaDo not say she has not been hurt
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Again the shrug"I have made certain choices in a dozen years since we came back from QuileiaI am willing to accept that others may disagree with those choices His eyes flicked to ErleinI promise not to let this unbalance me, even without you thereDevin will help if I need help
Baerd grimaced behind his beard and looked as if he would pursue the matter further, but when he spoke again it was in a different voice"You think this is it, then? You think it truly might happen now?"
"I think it has to happen this summer or it never willUnless, I suppose, someone does kill Marius in Quileia and we go back to stasis
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He checked himselfThen continued in a lower voice: "Marius is the one wild card we have ever had, the one thing I've been waiting for and working for all these yearsAnd he's just agreed to let us play him as we needIt may not hurt to do some praying, all of us, in the days to comeThis has
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Baerd was very still"Long enough," he echoed finally, and something in his voice sent a chill into Devin"Eanna light your path through the Ember Days and beyond He paused, glanced at Erlein
Alessan's expression spoke a world of things"And yours, the three of you," was all he said though, before he turned his horse and started away to the west
Following him, Devin glanced back once and saw that Baerd had not movedHe sat astride his horse watching them, and the sunlight fell on his hair and beard burnishing them back toward the golden color Devin remembered from their first
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