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do it until Aedion has taken the oath first. To
offer it to you before him ... she wants
Aedion to take it first.”
“In case he doesn’t wish me to be near his
kingdom.”
“So that Aedion knows she placed his
needs before her own.”
Gavriel bowed his head. “I would say yes,
if she offered.”
“I know.” Rowan clapped his oldest friend
on the back. “She knows, too.”
The Lion gazed northward. “Do you think
... we haven’t heard any news from Terrasen.”
“If it had fallen, if Aedion had fallen, we
would know. People here would know.”
Gavriel rubbed at his chest. “We’ve been to
war. He’s been to war. Fought on battlefields
as a child, gods be damned.” Rage flickered
over Gavriel’s face. Not at what Aedion had
done, but what he’d been made to do by fate