Kate Elliott - Crown Of Stars 02 by Prince Of Dogs

Author:Prince Of Dogs [Dogs, Prince Of]
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Published: 2010-01-07T07:25:49+00:00

who sat unnoticed in the corner behind Helmut Villam. Not any more. Nor any soldiers as brave as those

who died at Gent.

No one spoke or ventured an opinion, for Duke Burchard had thrown the meat among the dogs

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and everyone waited to see how ugly the fight would be for the spoils. But no one dared contradict the

king, not even Burchard. What other news do you bring for me, Eagle? Henry demanded, turning his

attention back to the young woman kneeling before him. There has been enough of bad news. Pray you,

tell me nothing more that I do not want to hear. She had been pale before. Now she blanched. There is

another piece of news, she began, almost stuttering. I heard it when we halted at the Thurin Forest,

where we had come searching for you. They had it there from Qued-linhame. Then she broke off. Go

on! said the king impatiently. N-news from Gent.

Gent! The king stood again.

Ai, Lady, muttered Brother Fortunatus, wincing as he got up.

What news?

Only this: that two children escaped from the city. The children said that a daimone imprisoned by

Bloodheart showed them the way out through the crypt, but there was no trace of such a tunnel when the

foresters thereabouts went later to look.

Such a tunnel, said Villam, as the other refugees from Gent claimed to have used to flee to safety?

I don't know, said Hanna, but Liath—

Liath? asked the king.

My comrade in the Eagles. She would know. She was there.

Of course, said the king. I will question her later. Go on. His interest was keen and his attention,

on the young Eagle, utterly focused.

There is little else to report. The Eika still infest the city. They have brought in slaves who work the

smithies and armories and in the tanneries, so the children reported. They saw— She made a kind of

hiccuping sound, then got the words out. According to the report I heard, they saw the bodies of fighting

men in the crypt below the cathedral. Tabards sewn with the sigil of a dragon.

That is enough. The king signed her to silence. She looked relieved to be free of his notice. I am

weary. Today my stewards will organize the train. Tomorrow we ride toward Echstatt. Duke Burchard,

you will give me fifty soldiers to send to Eastfall. Young Rodulf of Varingia and ten companions attend

me. He can prove himself loyal to me and cleanse his family honor of the stain laid there by his father the

late duke by fighting well and bravely in the east. Let them be called Dragons. The words came hard, but

he spoke them. In time, others will be added to their number.

He shut his eyes a moment, seemed to be praying silently; then he shook himself free of memory

and went un. God guide us in this hour of loss. He touched a hand to his chest where, Rosvita knew, he

kept an old bloodstained rag—the birthcloth of his bastard son Sanglant—nestled against his skin. Now

we must consider Gent. We haverecovered from our losses at Kassel.

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