"Tanya Huff - Kigh 2 - Fifth Quarter" - читать интересную книгу автора (Huff Tanya)

"We've been mapping the stronghold since the army arrived, Marshal." Bannon
spoke for them both. "If the weather holds, we could make an attempt as early as
tomorrow night."

Chela nodded. At this time of the year in the southern part of the Empire, there
would not be rain. "Make it then."

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As they left the tent, Bannon reached out and smacked one of the guards at the
entrance on the butt. "Nice work," he said, loudly enough to turn heads.

"How'd you get in there, you little shit!" the soldier demanded, flushing a ruddy
scarlet in the torchlight.

Bannon laughed, dancing back out of his way. "I can't believe you didn't see us
march right by."

Well aware that this failure would mean nights spent at other, less prestigious
duty posts, the guard weighed the odds of nailing the brother before the sister
reacted and decided discretion was the better part of not having his throat slit.
"Sod off," he snarled.

Bannon laughed again and draped his arm across Vree's shoulders as they moved
out into the camp. "How about wasting a quarter-crescent in the baths."

She glanced over at him, fighting the tremors that started under his touch, telling
herself they were caused by the tension of the last few hours, nothing more. His
dark eyes glittered in the charcoal mask and she could feel the brittle energy
coming off him in waves. "Wasting?" she asked, pointedly wrinkling her nose.

Ivory flashed in the shadow of his face as he lifted his hand to grin at the smudge
of lighter skin showing through the camouflage. "Well, there's always a bit of
cold water in a borrowed helmet___"

The baths, one of the many businesses that followed the seven armies with the
intent of separating soldiers from their pay, shut down at the end of the second

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watch. It took an extra half-crescent to convince the proprietors to keep the fires
going a little while longer.

Vree lay back in the warm water and tried not to listen to the appreciative