The Prince’s Fighters Chapters
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Chapter Twelve – In which Khanaarre and the Prince’s Fighters set out on their quest
It was the latter weeks of spring by the time we set out from Liddarn again. Some of the delay was logistical. Sirs Rennin and Orland needed to be outfitted with lighter armor for a journey without horses, and which would likely run well into the heat of summer. Elana brought her own armor out…
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Chapter Eleven – In which Derrek contemplates the road ahead and behind
As soon as the decision was made, I began gathering my strength. I knew that I would be able to part the Eastern Veil and bring us into the Holy Lands – this had all, after all, been inevitable, and I had divined much of the road ahead more than a decade ago – but…
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Chapter Ten – In which Khanaarre sees her favorite person and gets invited to go on an adventure
Rrii`aa’s chambers were in a different corner of the complex than mine, adjacent to the other Sisters of Amalai, and near to the spaces that had been set up with altars to Amalai and the other divine children of Es, where we celebrated feast-days together, and other communal rituals. The Sisters of Amalai had not…
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Chapter Nine – In which Derrek attends a fancy party and tells people things they don’t want to hear
I had considered dressing in the loyalist fashion. When I saw the effect of my Obsidian Cabal regalia, though, I knew that I had made the right decision. Awe. Fear. Hope. “You certainly know how to make an entrance,” the prince murmured as I settled in beside her. I chuckled. “One does one’s best,” I…
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Chapter Eight – In which Khanaaree and the Prince’s Fighters return home
The moon was a mere sliver when we left Renner. It had waxed full and begun to wane by the time we made it to our fortified home. Liddarn and the nearby mines had both been abandoned long before the border wars with the uurnigath that had ultimately provided context for the Usurper’s rebellion against…
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Chapter Seven – In which Derrek recalls his first meeting with Aemillian Solirius
I had anticipated the question, and had long ago decided in broad strokes how much I would say, but I had not thought of that day in detail until the question came and the answer fell from my lips. I had known that I was pushing boundaries in the libraries. I had known that there…
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Chapter Six – In which the party crosses Vencar, and Khanaarre recalls how she met her master
We were up before dawn and crossed into Namora at first light. The landscape didn’t change instantly, but it was clear why the border had been laid where it was. The hills and fields of Georg were richer, woodier, greener. The Namoran Lowlands were grassier, more golden, marked by boulders that dotted the earth as…
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Chapter Five – In which Derrek leaves his home and joins the Prince’s Fighters
In the end, there was not that much that I had to do. Bathe. Choose a travelling outfit. Move the rest of my clothes from my wardrobe to my wizard’s chest. Dispose of food that would spoil in my absence. Terminate a handful of experiments. My life in So’renner was simple. Leaving it was only…
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Chapter Four – In which Khanaarre attends a wedding which is rudely interrupted
Leaving the inn, I followed the commotion of wedding preparations until I found a place from which I could watch both the inn, where the prince and her knights were still refreshing themselves, and the final preparations. I would not have recognized it as a wedding if Derrek had not told us. It seemed too…
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Chapter Three – In which Derrek’s reputation is ruined
The fact that this moment had been inevitable, the long-foreseen culmination of a chain of events set in motion the day I left Aemillian Solirius and his shiny new crown, did not make it any less infuriating. I had had my reasons. They were good and valid reasons. And I had also rescued the teenaged…