Claremont, Chris - [Shadow War 02] by Shadow Dawn

Author:Shadow Dawn [txt] [Dawn, Shadow]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-02-21T21:43:26.282000+00:00

of her stance and weapons, told him all he needed to know about her bilities.

He looked rumpled, he looked wom, with none of the,%.cultivated veneer of the visage he normally presented to the world. He was a figure as rough-hewn in his way as the garrison he commanded, who’d grounded his life in as firm a foundation and built it solidly piece by piece. He would never be flashy, he was rather the kind who would endure. Right now, to Elora, he was very much the bear who’d been rudely wakened from his winter’s hibernation. Not happy at the disturbance and less so to be presenting himself at so much less than his best, with grizzled, unshaven cheeks and red-streaked eyes sunk too deep in their sockets. He’d obviously grabbed whatever lay closest at hand to wear, belting his sword on over a nightshirt.

He ran his fingers through hair that badly needed a wash, scrabbled about the desktop and drawers in a vain search for something to tie it back from his face.

“You seem to be the focus of quite a lot of interest, young woman,” he noted to Elora.

“A misfortune of fate, sir?” she hazarded lightly in response.

He gave that line no more credit than the story she’d told him earher but chose to accept it anyway. For the moment.

“Are you familiar with these assessments?” he asked Khory, indicating the thick bundle of dispatches she’d delivered. The warrior nodded. ‘Is there hope for a negotiated truce?”

“Defensive mind-set,” she said simply, voicing her own opinion.

“Defensive strategy. Automatically cedes the initiative to the enemy.

Peace will last until the enemy decides to break it.”

“At which point,” the Commandant mused thoughtfully, in agreement, “the question becomes, can that attack be repulsed? I’m to hold fast here, then.”

‘As best you can, and for as long, yes. Those are the orders.”

‘With no more resources than what I have?”

‘In light of Testeverde, the decision has been made to concentrate Republican forces at Sandeni itself. If the Maizan mean to scale the Wall, that’s the nut they have to crack to do so. The hope is that the Castellan and his warlord will conclude it is a shell that can’t be broken.”

“There’s more at play here than just Maizan, does your master, Drumheller, understand that? Does the council? The Maizan are no longer the only enemy with territorial ambitions. We’ve had skir-mishes all along the frontier.”

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