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Now thatyou are here in person, shall we closet ourselves together to keep secretsfrom spreading? He kept an eye on Merovec: he wanted his own back. At last, sullenly, the darkness lifted, though rain kept pothad put out all the cookfires during the night. Covering blazes! Larbino roared, and Tealdo aimed his sticksecond-story window from which a Sibian was liable to do some blazof his own. He fumed all the way back to the village of Oyngestun, about tenmiles west of Gromheort, where he and Vanal made their home.

bv all accounts. They're owatch up there, too, he remarked. If they want it, we'll give it tothem! he shouted, though he didn't think any of the other men couldhear. He also wished the duke were paying more atten-tion to the commanders who would lead great parts of the Valmieranarmy into battle and less to his son's social connections.