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The prisoners had done nothing but drain their resources since that day. The young knight in command,
Drendyn, the Earl of Tyler's Pass, was a noisy, inexperienced fellow who seemed stunned and
heartbroken when he learnt that Adrina was also in the camp and obviously allied with his captors. For a

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 Harshini

fleeting moment, R'shiel wished she could do what Joyhinia had tried to do to the rebels. Simply put
them to the sword and be done with them.

She had no more chance of getting the Defenders to follow that order than Joyhinia had in Testra.

"What do you suggest, Denjon?"

"I was hoping you'd have a suggestion," he told her with a shrug. "You seem to have an answer for
everything else these days."

R'shiel frowned. "You think I can just wave my arm and solve all your problems for you?"

"That's what the Harshini do, isn't it?"

"That is your prejudice speaking, Captain," Brak warned. "It does not help your cause to let it get in the
way."

Denjon turned on the Harshini but R'shiel intervened before things could escalate into a full-blown
argument.

"Why can't we just release them?"

"Because they'll be on our trail within hours."

"No, they won't. Their Crown Prince and their Duke are dead. They'll have to go home to return the
bodies to Karien, at least. They may send out a party to hunt us down later, but it won't be this lot."

Denjon looked thoughtful. "You may be right, R'shiel, but I'm not sure I want to risk finding out the hard
way that you're wrong."

"What if I can guarantee that they'll head home?"

"What are you thinking of doing?" Brak asked suspiciously. "Coercing them?"

"No, of course not!"

"Then how do you plan to make nearly four hundred Karien knights turn on their tails and slink home?"
Dorak asked. "And they have the three priests with them who were accompanying Lord Setenton. They'll
demand retribution, out of spite if nothing else."

"Don't you see? As soon as the search party realises that Cratyn is dead, they will turn around and head

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