She looked south toward that hill where the... She looked south toward that hill where the wizards were, where Rhamanus had been cut downShe wanted to curse them all, but she could not
They were men of the PalmThey were her own peopleBut her own people were dying in the valley as well, under the heavy blades of the EmpireThe sun was a brand overheadThe sky a blank, pitiless dome
She looked at d'EymonNeither of them spokeThey heard quick footsteps on the slopeScelto stumbled up, fighting for breath
"My lord," he gasped, dropping to his knees beside Brandin's chair, "we are hard-pressed in the center and on the rightto ask if you want us to fall back
I
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There was a silence on the hillIt seemed to Dianora as if she could hear her own heartbeat with some curious faculty of the ear, discerning it even above the sounds from belowThe noises in the valley seemed, oddly, to have receded nowTo be growing fainter every second
"No," he said quietlyThere is nowhere to retreat, and not before the Barbadian He was gazing bleakly out over Scelto's kneeling form, as if he would penetrate the distance with his eyes to strike at Alberico's heart
But there was
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"My love," Brandin saidShe saw death in his eyes, an abscess of loss that seemed to be leaving him almost blind, stripping his soul"Oh, my
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"Brandin!" she cried, terrified, not understanding at allBeginning again to weep, franticallyGrasping only the open sore of hurt he had becomeShe reached out toward him, but he was blind, and already turning away, east, toward the rim of the hill and the valley below
"All right," said Rinaldo the Healer, and lifted his hands awayDevin opened his eyes and looked downHis wound had closed; the bleeding had stoppedThe sight of it made him feel queasy; the unnatural speed of the healing, as if his senses still
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Devin winced and carefully avoided meeting Alais's eyeShe was right beside him, wrapping a roll of linen around his torso to bind the woundHe looked at Ducas instead, whose own cut above his eye had been closed by Rinaldo in the same wayArkin, who had also survived the skirmish down below, was bandaging itDucas, his red beard matted and sticky with blood, looked like some fearful creature out of childhood night terrors
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