Eforiel obeyed, but more slowly than she might have. Ansovald stopped leaning back and leaned forward instead, alarm andanger on his strong-featured face. She wished she could have gone out on to the streets of Oyngestun. Agmund's thick, dark eyebrows lowered like stormclouds, but seveof Ealstan's classmates spoke up in support of him.
When he returned to the market square, he discovered half a dozenAlgarvian soldiers making off with a large part of the fanner's stock in trade. This one's for revenge, boys, he said as Tealdo and his comradesstood in the forwardmost trenches and waited for the trumpets to signalthem into action. Maybe I'mtired, he thought, unbuttoning his fly. He pulled his cloak more tightly around him, and tugged the lioOdINTo THE DARKNESS523down low on his forehead.
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