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Warlord
Elizabeth Vaughan

Chronicles of the Warlands Book 03




Chapter 1

I was terrified.

I shifted my sweaty grip on the handle of my sword, and watched my attacker's eyes. "Watch their eyes,"
they'd told me. "The eyes will tell you their next move."

I stared intently at him, but his eyes told me nothing. My left arm was trembling from the weight of my
shield. "Look over the rim," they'd told me. "Look over the rim, watch his eyes and react to hiтАФ"

He came at me in an instant, rushing right for me. I managed to take his first blow on my shield and tried
to stab at him with my blade, but my helmet shifted into my eyes andтАФ

THWACK.

My arm went numb, and I cried out at the pain. My sword tumbled to the ground.
Rafe stood in front of me, horrified, staring at my arm.

"That's going to bruise," Prest commented dryly.

Rafe groaned, looking up at the skies as if for help. "The Warlord will gut me where I stand." He glared
at me. "Warprize, you were supposed to block the blow!"

"I tried!" I dropped my wooden shield, and rubbed my arm. "I watched your eyes and I kept the shield
up, butтАФ"

"Too slow. She doesn't have the speed," Ander offered.

"The shield is too heavy," Yveni added. "She doesn't have the strength she needs."

"Herself doesn't have the sense the elements gave a goose."

We all turned to see Marcus riding up to our group, glaring from under his cloak. "What's all this now?"

My guards all started talking at once. I sighed, took off my helmet and shook out my braid, letting the
breeze reach my damp head. Trying to be a warrior-princess is uncomfortable and sweaty.

Marcus and my four guards were arguing at the top of their lungs, Marcus covered in his cloak lest the
skies be offended by his scars. He'd been injured in a battle years ago, his left ear and eye burned away.
Prest, with skin of light brown and long black braids, towered over Marcus. He stood silent, as usual, his
arms crossed over his chest.