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The point of this meeting, your Excellency, is to convey mysovereign's displeasure with recent provocations along the borderbetween our two kingdoms, Hajaj' said. It was here after all,she thought. That dragon might havebeen flamed out of the sky, but it was a long way from dead; branchesmust have done a better job than usual of cushioning its fall. The easiest way to do so, though,1,526Harty Turtledovewas to do nothing but rmirror the king's thoughts and desires.

Aye, Gedominu. We've done what wecame to do. I don't suppose you gentlemen know who dithe fight? The redheads laughed, not so much at the idea thatshould know, but at the notion that they might care. Vartu and half a dozen others sprintedtoward that path.