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turned toward her. “When a Crochan Queen
summons her people to war, a flame is taken
from the royal hearth, and passed to each
hearth, one camp and village to the other. The
arrival of the flame is a summons that only a
true Crochan Queen may make.”
“So I only need to use the flame in that pit
out there and the army will come to me?”
A caw of laughter. “No. You must first be
accepted as queen to do that.”
Manon ground her teeth. “And how might I
achieve that?”
“That’s not for me to figure out, is it?”
It took all her self-restraint to keep from
unsheathing her iron nails and prowling
through the tent. “Why are you here—why
this camp?”
Glennis’s brows rose. “Didn’t I tell you
yesterday?”
Manon tapped a foot on the ground.