a veritable sea-voyage of discovery, Alais excused  back upstairs. ure  return of grimness to table, an inexorable reversion to ting preoccupation of t immune: o test foray outside ty walls.

    Alessan and Baerd, ing trada, searc likely battlefields, and so t place for to position time came for t roll of dice. Devin didnt muc t. It o do o be a battle for anyto happen, and AJberico of Barbadior

    was enougo drive men mad.

    time apart from eacly for reasons of caution, but undeniably because too mucy in them.

    Baerd and Ducas averns tonigs of ts to keep in toucregeans men and Rovigos sailors, and a number of to a long-aed summons.

    to spread: about Rinaldo di Senzio, to be someirring up revolution against Casalia and tyrants. Devin  t, but Alessan ly ceen years; feralize  it very quiet tly noo be recognized, and tribute as muco raising tensions in ty. If ttle more uneasy . . .

    Rinaldo tle, t ed starting to be coiling or gato come t young anymore.  ly ime before tyrants, noracted eacions from bygone years, stories of men and o Morian long ago.

    Erlein di Senzio  feended to eat and drink alone, sometimes in Solingen elseime y. Devin er.  of o be introduced, but  felt up to enduring Erleins abrasiveness. One mig t as events   so.

    Erleins absences because Alessan . For to betray tain deat be enraged and bitter and sullen, but , by any stretch, a fool.

    o dine to be back in Solingo play in a fees and for te. tuary of  fe Devin kn