The Awakening
“Leone stared down at the Capital from atop the Mount of the Thane. Diplomat Cherise rode on ahead, unmindful of her, as he had been since leaving the house of the Tribesmen. He never mentioned the attempted rape or her near killing of Urtane. Neither did he explain how he came to know them.
Now, as they neared the Capital, she found herself becoming concerned about what was going to happen. She looked down at herself. Dressed in the borrowed clothes of a Tribeswoman, her right arm taken by an a...rox beast, and riding on a borrowed horse, the only thing about her that said Caldorman was the Thane’s Needle that hung at her hip.
Her fears were realised when they were challenged at the gate.
‘Diplomat Cherise and Caldorman Leone,’ the Diplomat said evenly. ‘Returning from the north with vital news for the Thane’s ears only.’ ‘Diplomat Cherise is dead of Danan fever,’ the guard assured Cherise.
‘Oh, I see,’ Cherise murmured.
The guard dismissed Cherise and turned his attention to Leone.MoreLess
Now, as they neared the Capital, she found herself becoming concerned about what was going to happen. She looked down at herself. Dressed in the borrowed clothes of a Tribeswoman, her right arm taken by an a...rox beast, and riding on a borrowed horse, the only thing about her that said Caldorman was the Thane’s Needle that hung at her hip.
Her fears were realised when they were challenged at the gate.
‘Diplomat Cherise and Caldorman Leone,’ the Diplomat said evenly. ‘Returning from the north with vital news for the Thane’s ears only.’ ‘Diplomat Cherise is dead of Danan fever,’ the guard assured Cherise.
‘Oh, I see,’ Cherise murmured.
The guard dismissed Cherise and turned his attention to Leone.MoreLess
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