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. They had agreed to forego their pleasure so
that others could find happiness.
As the tears filled her eyes again, she realized that they
had been cheated. She had expected them to have more time
together, but that had been cruelly snatched from them.
Without thinking about it, she began to shimmer and
glow.
When the remainder of Huma's army finally found him,
he lay at the feet of a silver dragon. The beast had stood
over him, guarding his body until he could be properly
buried.
From the Yearning For War and the War's Ending
Michael Williams
ONE
In Hospital, Palanthas
April, 353
Athelard to his brother Bayard, greetings,
I hear in a letter from our mother that you, too, have
chosen the path of a father you do not remember, of the
older brother who sends you this. That you have chosen, if
indeed it was ever a choice, to take up the calling, to enter,
as Mother has written, THE ANCIENT AND HOLY
SOLAMNIC ORDERS, NOW THAT THE SIEGE HAS
BEEN LIFTED, THE ARMIES OF THE ENEMY DRIVEN
BACK ONCE AGAIN FROM OUR LAND AND FROM
THOSE THINGS WE ARE HONOR BOUND TO DEFEND
BY THE MEASURE AND THE CODE
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