ESCORtING  tERN GAtE IN t, tomasso bar Sandre settled o an easy  for t time in forty-eigensely stressful hours.

    t. Normally it urning to trada before curfey gates. Normally sundoreets of Astibar of all save trolling Barbadian mercenaries and to defy the dark.

    t a normal time, onig tradas  a triump one, tival of Vines reets for all ts. For ts in tibar tried to pretend it  Senzio. No Duke in t even dour Alberico no release from the year.

    tomasso glanced back at y. tting sun emple- domes and toibar in an eerily beautiful gloo it. tomasso t about putting on  it: o remove some of e liked transitory ligumn ely upon t. It  be long, a matter of days, before t frost touc fe  on co become—if all fell rig ibar.

    Be servants plodded stolidly along t above—of tomassos fature of tioned reds t ted betwo men.

    tomasso corrected  o count to tail of o mention tail of exactly ibar so be s to ting lodge for t-long vigil and from to t at dao put tter rato t, t: ed  to learn during t t night.

    At t t tomasso felt a nudge of appre, as augo do over tters her.

    But no to upon t. tomasso, t iet were  careful he could easily feel like a child again.

    tables een-year-old son of the chief groom.

    ed of course, tly, to keep tter quiet. tomasso iculously rediscovering to come to o him.

    One of akes, tomasso reflected, ty years in autumn taste for t was one of w o call ies.

    t  manner.  became clear—past t of nursing any ion t tomassos