k and all tness urn.

    S  do so, and kno be come by so easily. Not after all t igana and Stevan toget  o  in they lived.

    Besides o be said, everyt  as a kind of sohe sea.

    Almost a tayed. It ed, Brandin told anding on ter, c of illa sail ao to han he had ever been before.

    old er t same day t Dorotea  ever  to face.

    Sly after t came bad tidings to move norto, all tly  expected t, s nearly so soon. It oo unlike careful Alberico to move h such decisiveness.

    quot;Somet; Brandin said. quot;And I  was.”

    ime and t. itly gone Brandin needed a co sructure of order in tern provinces. to turn t giddy eup into t ruly forge a kingdom. t  o figely so hard-oppressed.

    ime, desperately, and Alberico  giving it to him.

    quot;You could send us,quot; dEymon to take s;Send t and position t of Senzio. See if t will ime.”

    tayed  t rauma—er Brandins announcement—Dianora kne dEymons deepest loyalty,  o t to tion. Moving t numbed by t s simplicity.

    But Brandin flatly refused to follow ion. She remembered his face as he explained,

    looking up from a map and streogetable in tting-room off t tern Palm still h was named Girald now.

    quot;I cannot make t alone,quot; Brandin said quietly. quot;Not to carry t made to. t be an Ygrat enoug it is more t. If  it must be made up of all of us art.”

    DEymon able, agitated, visibly disturbed. quot;t say again o go  here.”

    quot;Not really, dEymon. I  flatter myself. Gira