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Let me tell her, Father. Jula beamed with pride when Marek nodded. First, Father and one of the
second-phase Wolves spent the last two nights cutting those fence posts around the prison yard. One of
them would saw while the other watched the guards to see if they were looking.
Marek tore another piece of bread from the loaf. The Descendants still haven t figured out how to
detect us Wolves. Even their guard dogs can only smell us, not hear us. They look in our direction but
don t bark. It s like we re just another animal.
Rhia snorted. To the Descendants, we are just another animal.
Meanwhile, Jula continued, I ve been working with Panos, the other Wolf, riding on his back so he
could cloak me with his invisibility. We got up close to the camp so I could hear one of the commanders
voices. Then we had to wait until he was off-duty so I could take his place and order your guards to
bring you out. Her brows pinched as she looked at Rhia. Sorry I scared you with the execution.
Rhia shook her head. There was no other way to get Mali and me out at the same time.
One of the horses began to stamp and whinny. Bolan held up a finger. Someone s coming.
Bow in hand, Marek accompanied him to the barn door. Rhia saw Bolan poke his head out to look
toward the house, then wave to beckon someone over. She hurried toward the door, hoping to see Mali.
Instead Endrus and Medus appeared. They staggered toward the food but stopped when they saw Rhia.
Traitor, Medus spat, and lunged for her. Jula screamed. The other three men barely caught the Badger
in time to keep his hands from her throat.
She sat there, in that prison, while they burned me, he said, while they cut me. She sat there and
watched!
I saved your life, Rhia said. They would have killed you if I hadn t stopped them the last time.
You should ve let them, he growled. I wanted to die.
I m sorry. She looked at Endrus. But this was the best way to find out what the Descendants know
about the resistance.
While saving your own skin, no doubt. Medus gave her one last glare, then his shoulders sagged.
Which I can t really blame you for.
It almost killed me to watch them hurt you. Rhia stepped forward, close enough to touch, and spoke to
both men. Please forgive me.
Endrus nodded slowly. You were as much a victim as we were.
Medus stared at her with bloodshot eyes and finally assented. The others released him, and he shook his
arms and straightened his back. Then the Badger and Cougar turned to the food and set upon it like
starving dogs.
Where s Mali? Bolan asked.
Endrus spoke through a mouthful of bread. Thought she was right behind me, but when I turned around,
she was running back into the prison. He shook his head. No one came out after that.
You left her there? Marek said.
What were we supposed to do, Medus grumbled, storm the place? He glared at Rhia. After what
they did to us, we could barely walk.
Do you think she s dead? Rhia asked Endrus.
His mouth formed a grim line. If not dead, recaptured.
Rhia sank onto the floor next to Jula and put her face in her hands. Surely the Ilions would kill Mali now,
as a precaution against her future escape, or even as punishment for releasing Endrus and Medus. The
Wasp s only hope was that they still considered her suitable bait for Lycas.
The question was, would her brother take it?
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Sangian Hills
N ilik tried not to flinch as the Otter healer stitched the wound on his right hand.
Third time this week, she said.
He put his other hand behind his back, as if that would undo its two cuts.
Been doing a lot of these lately. She tied off the thread and cut it. Not just you, Nilik. You all need to
be more careful.
He flexed his fingers and examined the neat sutures on the base of his thumb. Is it unusual to have so
many injuries in training?
Unheard of. Next! She pulled a clean needle and thread from her kit and beckoned to the Wolverine at
the head of the line, one of Nilik s comrades from Tiros, who was holding a bloodstained bandage
around his outer wrist.
Nilik shuffled back toward the men s barracks, which consisted of a long tent that held the bedrolls of
twenty to thirty soldiers. There wasn t room to do anything in there but sleep, something he needed
desperately. It was nearly dusk; he d been up with the sun to train, and train, then train some more. His
hand throbbed, and he cursed his own carelessness. [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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Let me tell her, Father. Jula beamed with pride when Marek nodded. First, Father and one of the
second-phase Wolves spent the last two nights cutting those fence posts around the prison yard. One of
them would saw while the other watched the guards to see if they were looking.
Marek tore another piece of bread from the loaf. The Descendants still haven t figured out how to
detect us Wolves. Even their guard dogs can only smell us, not hear us. They look in our direction but
don t bark. It s like we re just another animal.
Rhia snorted. To the Descendants, we are just another animal.
Meanwhile, Jula continued, I ve been working with Panos, the other Wolf, riding on his back so he
could cloak me with his invisibility. We got up close to the camp so I could hear one of the commanders
voices. Then we had to wait until he was off-duty so I could take his place and order your guards to
bring you out. Her brows pinched as she looked at Rhia. Sorry I scared you with the execution.
Rhia shook her head. There was no other way to get Mali and me out at the same time.
One of the horses began to stamp and whinny. Bolan held up a finger. Someone s coming.
Bow in hand, Marek accompanied him to the barn door. Rhia saw Bolan poke his head out to look
toward the house, then wave to beckon someone over. She hurried toward the door, hoping to see Mali.
Instead Endrus and Medus appeared. They staggered toward the food but stopped when they saw Rhia.
Traitor, Medus spat, and lunged for her. Jula screamed. The other three men barely caught the Badger
in time to keep his hands from her throat.
She sat there, in that prison, while they burned me, he said, while they cut me. She sat there and
watched!
I saved your life, Rhia said. They would have killed you if I hadn t stopped them the last time.
You should ve let them, he growled. I wanted to die.
I m sorry. She looked at Endrus. But this was the best way to find out what the Descendants know
about the resistance.
While saving your own skin, no doubt. Medus gave her one last glare, then his shoulders sagged.
Which I can t really blame you for.
It almost killed me to watch them hurt you. Rhia stepped forward, close enough to touch, and spoke to
both men. Please forgive me.
Endrus nodded slowly. You were as much a victim as we were.
Medus stared at her with bloodshot eyes and finally assented. The others released him, and he shook his
arms and straightened his back. Then the Badger and Cougar turned to the food and set upon it like
starving dogs.
Where s Mali? Bolan asked.
Endrus spoke through a mouthful of bread. Thought she was right behind me, but when I turned around,
she was running back into the prison. He shook his head. No one came out after that.
You left her there? Marek said.
What were we supposed to do, Medus grumbled, storm the place? He glared at Rhia. After what
they did to us, we could barely walk.
Do you think she s dead? Rhia asked Endrus.
His mouth formed a grim line. If not dead, recaptured.
Rhia sank onto the floor next to Jula and put her face in her hands. Surely the Ilions would kill Mali now,
as a precaution against her future escape, or even as punishment for releasing Endrus and Medus. The
Wasp s only hope was that they still considered her suitable bait for Lycas.
The question was, would her brother take it?
21
Sangian Hills
N ilik tried not to flinch as the Otter healer stitched the wound on his right hand.
Third time this week, she said.
He put his other hand behind his back, as if that would undo its two cuts.
Been doing a lot of these lately. She tied off the thread and cut it. Not just you, Nilik. You all need to
be more careful.
He flexed his fingers and examined the neat sutures on the base of his thumb. Is it unusual to have so
many injuries in training?
Unheard of. Next! She pulled a clean needle and thread from her kit and beckoned to the Wolverine at
the head of the line, one of Nilik s comrades from Tiros, who was holding a bloodstained bandage
around his outer wrist.
Nilik shuffled back toward the men s barracks, which consisted of a long tent that held the bedrolls of
twenty to thirty soldiers. There wasn t room to do anything in there but sleep, something he needed
desperately. It was nearly dusk; he d been up with the sun to train, and train, then train some more. His
hand throbbed, and he cursed his own carelessness. [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
