Paul speaks a secret

Paul found his father where Alred had said he would be, and doing precisely what Paul had known he would be doing: in the gloomy old barn that had never belonged to a farm, staring at a blank wall — the blanker the better.

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Caedwulf takes his first steps

Harald Leki was — quite ostentatiously — trying not to laugh.

Caedwulf watched him with ostentatious gravity. He did not see what part of “His Royal Highness, Crown Prince Caedwulf of Lothere” was so amusing.

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Swampmoon completes his task

In such high-​ceilinged halls only the foulest smells stayed at nose-​level.

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