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Unfortunately, she could not afford to be entirely indif-
ferent to him. She reflected, with her usual frustration, on
the tangled hold Pitrick had over her life.
Perian's father and mother had also been loyal, decorated
soldiers in the thane's troop of Huscarles, or House Guards.
When Perian was born, her mother retired from active duty
and devoted herself to raising her only child. She had been
indulgent to Perian, and often wistful around the child. Per-
ian's father, on the other hand, had been emotionally distant
from both of them - a proper dwarf soldier, Perian had al-
ways thought. Given her family, she had encountered no
difficulty joining the House Guard - about ten percent of its
troopers were female - or rising quickly to the rank of ser-
geant. That was when Pitrick, the oily adviser to the thane,
had first entered her life.
He had confronted her with evidence of her true origin, in
the form of letters from her mother to a Hylar soldier - her
mother's secret lover. According to Pitrick, that illicit union
had produced Perian. As far as she was aware, no one but
her, her mother, and Pitrick knew that she was neither a full-
blooded derro nor the daughter of the bold warrior whose
reputation was known far and wide
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