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Forcing Brandin and the entire Palm to respond to...
Posted on Monday, May 3, 2010 at 10:12 PM
Forcing Brandin and the entire Palm to respond to his tuneSeizing control again after a winter of being impacted upon in all those trivial, disconcerting, cumulative waysShaping events so that Quileia would have no choice but to seek him out, so that back home in the Empire they could not mistake his power, the vigor of his will, the glory of his conquests
That was how he was supposed to feelHow he had indeed briefly felt the morning he'd heard that Brandin had abdicated in YgrathWhen he'd ordered his three armies north to the border of Senzio
But something had changed since that day and it was more than just the presence of opposition now waiting in the Bay of FarsaroThere was something else, something so vague and undefined he couldn't even talk about it, even if he'd had anyone to talk to, couldn't even pin it down, but it was there, nagging at him like an old wound in rain
Alberico of Barbadior had not got to where he was, achieved this power base from which a thrust for the Tiara was imminent, without subtlety and thoughtfulness, without learning to trust his instincts
And his instincts fashion d
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