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forgotten it already. I waited for him to thank me for the reminder. I
considered that my due, for whenever my father had to remind me
of a rule I had forgotten, I had to thank him and accept the
consequences of my lapse.
Instead Parth scowled at me. “You ain’t alone out here, Nevare. I
can see you right from the window, and there’s all these old sojers
keeping an eye on you. You’ll be fine. Just sit yourself down by the
door and wait like I told you.”
“But I’m supposed to stay with you,” I objected. My order to stay in

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Parth’s company was a separate order from his to watch me and
show me the fort. He might get in trouble for leaving me alone
outside. And I feared my father would do more than rebuke me for
not following Parth as I was supposed to.
His drinking companion came up with a solution. “My boys Raven
and Darda are out there, laddie. They’re down by the corner of the
smithy, playing knife toss with the other lads. Whyn’t you go and
see how it’s done, and play a little yourself? We won’t be gone
long. I just want to talk to your Uncle Parth here about what it takes
to find a cushy job like what he’s found for himself, nursie-maiding
for old Colonel Burvelle.”
“Keep a civil tongue in your head when you speak of the boy’s pa
in front of him! Do you think he hasn’t got a tongue of his own, to
wag on about how you talk? Shut it, Vev, before you put my job on
the block.”
“Well, I didn’t mean anything, as I’m sure Colonel Laddie knew,
right, lad?”
I grinned uncertainly. I knew that Vev was needling Parth on
purpose, and perhaps mocking my father and me into the bargain. I
didn’t understand why. Weren’t they friends? And if Vev were
insulting Parth, why didn’t we just walk away like gentlemen, or
demand satisfaction of him, as often happened in the tales my eldest
sister read aloud to my younger sister when my parents were not
about? It was all very confusing, and as there had been much talk
over my head of late that I must be taught how men did things now
or I should grow up to be effeminate, I hesitated long over what
response I should make.

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Before I could, Parth gave me a none-too-gentle push in the
direction of some older boys lounging at the corner of a warehouse
and told me to go and play, for he’d only be a moment or two, and
immediately clomped up the steps and vanished into the tavern, so