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agony and worry. But the general said,
“Eldrys was to thin our numbers, make us
doubt Morath’s wisdom by sending his grunts
here. He wants us to underestimate him. If we
move to the border, we’ll have the foothills to
slow his advance. We know that terrain; he
doesn’t. We can wield it to our advantage.”
“And if he cuts through Oakwald?” Lord
Gunnar pointed to the road past Endovier.
“What then?”
Ren Allsbrook replied this time. “Then we
know that terrain as well. Oakwald has no
love for Erawan or his forces. Its allegiance is
to Brannon. And his heirs.” A glance at her,
cold and yet—warming. Slightly.
She offered the young lord a hint of a
smile. Ren ignored it, facing the map again.
“If we move to the border,” Darrow said,
“we risk being wiped out, thus leaving
Perranth, Orynth, and every town and city in