Alessan was somewhere among the crowd in the... Alessan was somewhere among the crowd in the harborDevin had spotted him at one point working his way towards the pier, but couldn't see him nowDanoleon was inside the palace itself, representing Lower Corte in the ceremonyThe irony of that was almost overwhelming, whenever Devin allowed himself to think about itHe tried not to because it made him afraid, for all of them
But Alessan had been decisive when the courteously phrased request had come for the High Priest to travel north and join men of the other three provinces as formal witnesses to the Ring Dive
"You will go, of course," the Prince had said, as if it were the most natural thing in the world"And we shall be there as wellI need to take the measure of things on Chiara since this change
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Alessan had only laughed, though not, Devin thought, with any real amusementHe had become virtually impossible to read since his mother had diedDevin felt quite inadequate to the task of bridging that space or breaking throughSeveral times in the days following Pasithea's death he had found himself desperately wishing that Baerd were with them
"What about Savandi?" Erlein had demanded"Couldn't this be a trap for DanoleonOr for you, even?"
Alessan shook his headYou said yourself, no message was sentAnd it is entirely plausible that he was killed by brigands in the countryside as Torre made it seemThe King of the Western Palm has larger things to worry about right now than one of his petty spiesI'm not concerned about that, Erlein, but I do thank you for your solicitude He smiled, a
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"What are you concerned about?" Devin had asked the Prince
But Alessan hadn't answered that
High in the rigging of the Aema Falcon Devin waited with the others for the palace doors to open, and tried to control the pounding of his heartIt was difficult though; the sense of excitement and anticipation that had been building on the Island for three days had started to become overwhelming this morning, and had taken an almost palpable shape when Brandin himself had appeared and walked calmly down to the pier with a small retinue, including one stooped, balding old man dressed exactly like the King
"Brandin's Fool," the Cortean in the rigging next to him said, when Devin asked, pointing"Something to do with sorcery, the way they do things in Ygrath"We're better off
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Devin had gazed for the first time at the man who had destroyed Tigana and tried to imagine what it would be like to have a bow in his hands right now and Baerd or Alessan's skill at archeryIt was a long, but not an impossible shot, down, and across a span of water to strike a single soberly clad, bearded man standing by the sea
Imagining the flight of that arrow in the morning sun, he remembered another conversation with Alessan, at the rail of the Falcon the night they reached Chiara
"What do we want to happen?" Devin had asked
Word had reached the Gulf of Corte just before they sailed that most of the Second Company of Alberico's Barbadian mercenaries had now been pulled back from the border forts and cities in Ferraut and were marching with the other armies towards SenzioHearing that,
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Much like his mother's, Devin had thought, but would not dream of saying
On the ship Alessan had turned to him briefly at the question and then looked back out to seaIt was very late, nearer dawn than midnightNeither of them had been able to sleepBoth moons were overhead and the water gleamed and sparkled with their mingled light
"What do we want to happen?" Alessan repeated"I'm not completely sureI think I know, but I can't be certain yetThat's why we're going to watch this Dive
They listened to the sounds of the ship in the night seaDevin cleared his throat
"If she fails?" he asked
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