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Two days after the Quileians passed through,...
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Two days after the Quileians passed through, Alienor began a habit of springtime rides that took her, casually, far enough afield to necessitate one or two overnight stays at neighboring castlesAt which time she relayed a quite specific message to half a dozen equally specific peopleBefore Midsummer
Not long afterwards, a silk-merchant and then a singer she rather liked came down to Castle Borso with word of tremendous troop movements among the BarbadiansThe roads were absolutely clogged with mercenaries marching north, they saidShe had raised her eyebrows in quizzical mystification, but had allowed herself more wine than was customary each of those two nights, and had rewarded both men later, after her own fashion
Up on the ramparts at sunset now, she heard a footstep on the stair behind herShe had been waiting for hermes kelly bag it
Without turning, she said, "You are almost too lateThe sun is nearly gone Which was true; the color of the sky and the thin, underlit clouds in the west had darkened from pink through crimson and purple most of the way down to the indigo she wore about her shoulders
Elena stepped out on the parapet
"I'm sorry," she said, inappropriatelyShe was always apologizing, still uneasy in the castleShe moved to the guard's walk beside Alienor and looked out over the gathering darkness of the late-spring fieldsHer long yellow hair fanned over her shoulders, the ends lifting in the breeze
Ostensibly she was here to serve as a new lady-in-waiting to AlienorShe had brought her two young children and her few belongings into Borso two mornings after the Ember Days had endedIt was considered a good idea that she be established here well omega constellation before the time that might matterIt appeared, incredibly enough, that there could actually come a time when her being here might matter
Tomaz, the gaunt, aged Khardhu warrior had said that it would be necessary for one of them to stay hereTomaz, who was very clearly not from Khardhun, and just as clearly unwilling to say who he really wasAlienor didn't care about thatWhat mattered was that Baerd and Alessan trusted him, and in this matter Baerd was deferring to the dark, hollow-cheeked man absolutely,
"One of whom, exactly?" Alienor had askedThe four of them had been alone: herself, Baerd and Tomaz, and the red-headed young girl who didn't like her, Catriana
Baerd hesitated a long time"One of the Night Walkers," he said finally
She had raised her eyebrows at that, the small outward gesture serving to show all she was prepared chloe handbag to reveal of her inward astonishment
"Really? Here? They are still about?"
Baerd nodded
"And that is where you were last night when you went out?"
After a second Baerd nodded again
The girl Catriana blinked in manifest surpriseShe was clever and quite beautiful, Alienor thought, but she still had rather a great deal to learn
"Doing what?" Alienor asked Baerd
But this time he shook his headShe had expected thatThere were limits with Baerd; she enjoyed trying to push towards themOne night, ten years ago, she had found exactly where his boundaries of privacy lay, in one dimension at leastSurprisingly perhaps, their friendship had deepened from that time on
Now, unexpectedly, he grinned"You could have them all stay here, of course, not just one
She had grimaced with a distaste only partly feigned"One will be sufficient, cartier mens watch roadster thank youAssuming it is enough for your purposes, whatever those are?" She said that last to the old man disguised as a Khardhu warriorHis skin coloring was really very good but she knew all about Baerd's techniques of disguiseOver the years he and Ales-san had shown up here in an effective diversity of appearances
"I'm not absolutely sure what our purposes are," Tomaz had replied frankly"But insofar as we need an anchor for what Baerd wants us to at least be able to try, one of them in this castle should be enough
"Enough for what?" she'd probed again, not really expecting anything
"Enough for my magic to reach out and find this place," Tomaz had said bluntly
This time it was she who blinked and Catriana who looked unruffled and superiorWhich was unfair, Alienor decided afterwards; the girl must have known the old man was a chanel classic bag wi
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