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mountains.”
“There are secret paths through the
Staghorns,” Lord Sloane said, utterly
unruffled. “Many of our people used them ten
years ago.”
And so it went on. Debating and arguing,
voices rising and falling.
Until Darrow called a vote—amongst the
six Lords of Terrasen only. The only official
leaders of this army, apparently.
Two of them, Sol and Ren, voted for the
border.
Four of them, Darrow, Sloane, Gunnar, and
Ironwood, voted to move to Orynth.
Darrow simply said, when silence had
fallen, “Should our allies not wish to risk our
plan, they may depart. We hold you to no
oaths.”
Lysandra almost started at that.
Aedion growled, even as worry flashed in