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Vree straightened her knees until her eyes cleared the edge. The well room was so dark, they might as


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well have still been in the caves under the hill. No guards hid in the darkness. Soundlessly, she slipped
up and over the side, felt Bannon standing beside her, and moved off to the right. A moment later, each
having determined half the dimensions of the room, they met again.

Commander Jolan had secured the well room by simply filling in most of an open arch and putting a
door where there'd never been a door. The inconvenience for anyone drawing water had clearly been
outweighed by the alternative—throats slit.

"Guard outside?" Bannon breathed against her ear.

Vree nodded, pointing to the tiny line of light.

The only reason to have light was so that someone could see.

"One or two?"

Vree pressed her head to the crack and waited. Two soldiers—and all Jolan's traitors were ex-Seven
Armies—guarding a locked cellar leading nowhere fifteen days after anything had happened, would be
talking.

After a while, she laid one finger against Bannon's cheek.

They'd have to convince the guard to open the door without calling for help.

It had been fifteen days.

Fifteen slaughtering days.

And yet here he was taking his turn in the bowels of the fortress—the shitty bowels of the fortress, he
amended—waiting for Marshal Moronic-Cousin-to-the-Emperor Arnon to try something stupid. Arnon
would if anyone would, but still…

It had been fifteen days.

Legs crossed, back against the rough wood of the door, he picked at his teeth with the point of his
dagger. He'd never been so tempted to fall asleep on duty.

Bored, bored, slaughtering bored…

The sudden scrape of stone against stone inside the well room jerked him erect. A muffled curse spun
him around. The distant splash brought both brows in under the rim of his helm.

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