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WHICH ARE NOT OF YOUR BEST MATERIAL OR
DESIGN. I AM NOT A STONE MASON, NOR AM I A
BETTING MAN - this last drawing laughter from some of
the older soldiers - BUT IF I WAS, I WOULD WAGER
THAT A FAT MAN AT A HEALTHY TROT COULD
CAUSE STRUCTURAL DAMAGE TO THIS MIGHTY
FORTRESS.
More laughter followed, and I drew nearer the group,
curry-comb in hand, the horses forgotten. If what he was
saying were indeed true - and I had no cause to doubt him -
we were cornered, backed into a shoddy and vulnerable
place where the walls stood not between us and the
dragonarmies, but between us and our own escape. And the
footmen sat here joking and spinning stories.
LOOK AROUND YOU, Breca muttered as the laughter
died again, as some of the men looked up uneasily,
skeptically, looking into the rose embroidered on my
doublet as if it were an orb of prophecy, looking at me as
though I were a messenger from another planet.
LOOK AROUND YOU. SOON ENOUGH YOU'LL SEE
THE BIRDS NO LONGER LIGHT HERE. THE NEWS HAS
A WAY OF SPREADING AMONGST THE ANIMALS, AND
NOT JUST FROM KIND TO KIND. SOON ENOUGH
YOU'LL SEE THE RATS LEAVING. THE HORSES HAVE
THE SAME INSTINCTS, BUT THEY'RE TETHERED AND
STABLED AND - he glanced at me, smiled briefly, and
stared at his pipe - AND CURRIED
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