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With the Ygrathen army mostly gone Brandin needed...
10:23 AM, Sunday, January 31, 2010
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With the Ygrathen army mostly gone Brandin needed a chance to shape a new structure of order in the western provincesTo turn the first giddy euphoria of his announcement into the bonds and allegiances that would truly forge a kingdomThat would let him summon an army to fight in his name, among a conquered people lately so hard-oppressed
He needed time, desperately, and Alberico wasn't giving it to him
"You could send us," d'Eymon the Chancellor said one morning, as the dimensions of the crisis began to take shape"Send the Ygrathens we have left and position the ships off the coast of SenzioSee if that will hold Alberico for a time
The Chancellor had stayed with themThere was never any real doubt that he wouldFor all his trauma, he had tiffany jewellery looked ill and old for days after Brandin's announcement, Dianora knew that d'Eymon's deepest loyalty, his love, though he would have shied awkwardly away from that word, was given to the man he served and not to the nationMoving through those days almost numbed by the divisions in her own heart she envied d'Eymon that simplicity
But Brandin flatly refused to follow his suggestionShe remembered his face as he explained, looking up from a map and strewn sheets of paper covered with numbersThe three of them together around a table in the sitting-room off the King's bedchamber; Rhun a nervous, preoccupied fourth on a couch at the far end of the roomThe King of the Western Palm still had his Fool, though the King of Ygrath was named Girald now
"I hermes pink bag cannot make them fight alone," Brandin said quietly"Not to carry the full burden of defending people I have just made them equal toThis cannot be an Ygrathen warFor one thing, they are not enough, we will loseBut it is more than thatIf we send an army or a fleet it must be made up of all of us here, or this Kingdom will be finished before I start
D'Eymon had risen from the table, agitated, visibly disturbed"Then I must say again what I have said before: this is follyThe thing to do is to go home and deal with what has happened in Ygrath
"Not really, d'EymonI will not flatter myselfGirald has been ruling Ygrath for twenty years
"Girald is a traitor and should have been executed as such with his mother!"
Brandin looked up at him, the grey yacht master rolex eyes suddenly chilly
"Must we repeat this discussion? D'Eymon, I am here for a reason and you know that reasonI cannot go back on that: it would cut against the very core of what I am His expression changed"No man need stay with me, but I am bound myself to this peninsula by love and grief, and by my own nature, and those three things will hold me here
"The Lady Dianora could come with us! With Dorotea dead you would need a Queen in Ygrath and she would be
"D'Eymon! Have done The tone was final, ending the discussion
But the Chancellor was a brave man"My lord," he pushed on, grim-faced, his voice low and intense, "if I cannot speak of this and you will not send our fleet to face Barbadior I know not how to advise youThe provinces will not go chanel mens watches to war for you yet, we know thatThey need time to see and to believe that you are one of them
"And I have no time," Brandin replied with what had seemed an unnatural calm after the sharp tension of the exchange"So I have to do it immediatelyAdvise me on that, ChancellorHow do I show them? Right nowHow do I make them believe I am truly bound to the Palm?"
So there it was, and Dianora knew that the moment had come to her at last
I cannot go back on that; it would cut against the very core of what I amShe had never really nursed any fantasies of his ever freely releasing and unbinding his spellShe knew Brandin too wellHe was not a man who went back or reversed himselfThe core of what he wasIn love and hate and in the defining shape of his chanel handbags collection pri
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