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Rovigo said nothingDevin glanced to his right and saw the three wizards standing closely togetherErlein and Sertino had their eyes closed, but Sandre was staring fixedly downwards to where Alberico of Barbadior was at the back of his armyAlessan had been with the wizards but now he came quickly over to join the thirty or so men spread out behind Baerd on the ridge
"Ducas?" he asked quietly
"I can't see any of them," Baerd said, with a quick glance at the PrinceThe last of the Ygrathen Guard had now descended their hillThe vanguard were already moving rapidly over the uneven ground between"I still don't believe it
"Let me take my men to meet them below," Ducas had urged Alessan, the moment the kelly hermes wizards had linked"We know he will be coming after us
"Of course we do," Alessan had said, "but we are poorly armed and trainedWe need the advantage of height up here
"Speak for yourself," Ducas di Tregea had growled
"There isn't any cover down thereWhere could you hide?"
"You are telling me whether there is cover?" Ducas replied, feigning angerHis mouth widened in his wolfish grin"Alessan, go teach your fingers to know your fingernails! I was fighting running battles and ambushes in this kind of terrain while you were still numbering oak trees or some such thing in Quileia
Alessan had not laughedAfter a moment though, he nodded his headNot waiting for more, red-bearded Ducas and his prada logo twenty-five men had immediately melted away down the slopes of their ridgeBy the time the Ygrathens sent the Guard, the outlaws were down below, hidden among the gorse and heather, the high grass and the scattered olive and fig trees in the ground between the hills
Squinting, Devin thought he could see one of them, but he wasn't sure
"In Marian's name/" Erlein di Senzio suddenly cried from the east end of the ridge"He is pushing us back again!"
"Then hold!" Sandre snarled"Fight him! Go deeper!"
"I haven't got any deeper to go!" Sertino gasped
Baerd leaped from his crouch staring at the three of themHe hesitated, visibly wracked by doubt for a moment, then he strode swiftly over to the wizards
"Sandre, louis vuitton replicas handbags Erlein? Can you hear me?"
"Yes, of course Sandre's darkened face was streaming with perspirationHe was still staring east, but his gaze was unfocused now, inward
"Then do it! Do what we talked aboutIf he's pushing all of you back we have to try or there is no point to any of this!"
"Baerd, they could be Erlein's words came out one by one as if forced from his lips
"No, he's right!" Sertino gasped, cutting inI'll follow you two Do it!"
"Stay with me then," Erlein said, in a voice leeched of all strength"Stay with me, both of you
There were sudden shouts and then screaming below themNot from the battlefieldFrom the ground to the northAll of them but the wizards wheeled around to see
Ducas had louis vuitton bags in uk sprung his trapFiring from ambush his outlaws unleashed a score of arrows at the Ygrathens, and then swiftly let fly as many moreHalf a dozen, eight, ten of their attackers fell, but the King's Guard of Ygrath were armored against arrows even in the blazing heat, and most of them pushed on, reacting with frightening agility despite the weight they carried, moving toward Ducas's spread-out men
Devin saw three of the downed men get up againOne pulled an arrow from his own arm and stumbled resolutely on, pressing toward their ridge
"Some of them will have bowsWe have to cover the wizards," Alessan snapped"Any man with any kind of shield, over here!"
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