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Who finally broke the silence"You are fortunate that I agree with you," he said
Arkin shook his head"We would not have stayed together this long otherwise
Alessan neatly dismounted from his horseHe walked over towards Ducas, ignoring the arrows still trained on him"If you are hunting Barbadians," he said quietly, "I have some idea as to whyI am doing the same thing, in my own way"You can do as your dead man suggested: turn me in to Ygrath, and yes, I suspect there would be a rewardOr you can kill us here, and have done with usYou can also let us go our own way from this placeBut there is one other, quite different thing you fake cartier watches can do
"Which is?" Ducas seemed to have regained his self-controlHis voice was calm again, as it had been at the beginning
"Which is?"
"To drive both Tyrants from the Palm before this summer is out
Naddo looked up suddenly, a brightness in his face"Really, my lord? We can do this? Even now?"
"There is a chance," Alessan saidFor the first time there is a chance He looked back at Ducas"Where were you born?"
"In Tregea," the other man said after a pause
Devin had a moment to think about how completely things had shifted here, that Alessan should be asking the questions nowHe felt a stirring within him, of hope renewed and of replica cartier watches pride
The Prince was nodding his head"I thought it might be soI have heard the stories of a red-headed Captain Ducas who was one of the leaders at Borifort in Tregea during the Barbadian siege thereThey never found him after the fort fell"I could not help but notice the color of your hair
For a moment the two men were motionless as in a tableau, one on the ground the other on his horseThen, quite suddenly, Ducas di Tregea smiled
"What is left of my hair," he murmured wryly, sweeping off his hat again with a wide gesture
Releasing his reins he swung down off his horse and, striding forward, held out an open palm to AlessanWho met fendi black leather spy bag both, the smile and offered hand, with his own
Devin found himself gasping with the rush of relief that swept over him, and then cheering wildly at the top of his voice with twenty outlaws in that dark Certandan pass
What he noticed though, even as the cheering reached a crescendo, was that neither wizard was shoutingErlein and Sertino sat very still, almost rigid on their horses, as if concentrating on somethingThey gazed at each other, expressions identically grim
And because he noticed, because he seemed to be becoming the sort of man who saw things like this, Devin was the first to fall silent, and he had even instinctively gucci ladies watch raised a hand to quiet the othersAles-san and Ducas lowered their linked palms and gradually, as silence returned to the pass, everyone looked at the wizards
"What is it?" Ducas said
Sertino turned to himNortheast of us, quite closeI just felt the probeHe'll not find me though, I've done no magic for a long time
"I have," said Erlein di Senzio"Earlier today, in the Braccio PassOnly a light spell, a screen for someoneEvidently it was enoughThere must have been a Tracker in one of the southern forts
"There almost always is," Sertino said flatly
"What," Ducas said, "were you doing in the Braccio Pass?"
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