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desolation threatened him when he accepted that she was missing. With Tempet
dead, he needed Alloi to conquer the rys. He gained some hope when he
determined that Shan appeared to be missing as well. Perhaps Alloi was
fighting Shan to the death on some private chosen ground.
At least those wraiths are gone, Sandin thought with utter relief before his
mind blocked out the horrible episode. He did not consider his guilt for
driving his soldiers against the King of Jingten.
He went to his squire and determined that the man was not dead. After Recey
got up, they began to rouse the others.
My army is still larger. I shall clean up this mess while I await Alloi s
triumphant return, Sandin
thought.
In another portion of the dismembered Atrophane army, Dreibrand opened his
eyes and experienced the same shock as Sandin when he viewed his surroundings.
Bodies stretched away in every direction. The Atrophaney soldiers who had been
sheltered by his warding appeared untouched, and Dreibrand hoped that they
were still alive. Farther away, torn heaps of dead men littered the ground.
They were the unfortunates who had been rent by the frigid fury of the
wraiths.
But no wraiths prowled the area, and thinking back, Dreibrand remembered
watching their vile vapors dissipate.
Shan released them
, he thought, thankful that the horror had ended.
When Dreibrand sat up, his arm stuck to the ground before snapping free. The
crunch of ice as the crusted turf released him warned him that he had to be
dangerously cold. Deep shivering suddenly started, and he recognized the onset
of exposure. When he stood up, the cold constricted his body. He flapped his
arms vigorously, and his sluggish body mustered some blood flow.
He plucked his sword out of the ground and sheathed it. Concerned about his
brother, Dreibrand took out his spyglass and looked toward the location of his
comrades. Still on the hillside where he had left them, he spotted Atarek and
Tytido rising stiffly from the ground. Dreibrand also saw that
Astar had wandered back to them.
Dreibrand scanned the rest of the area, turning in a circle and studying the
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groups of bodies. Shan was no where in sight, and Dreibrand could not find
Alloi either. Frightened earlier by Shan s berserk actions, Dreibrand did not
entirely regret the rys King s departure. Although the sentiment felt foreign,
Dreibrand s allegiance to Shan now resembled the ashes of a comfortable home
burned by an arsonist.
After Dreibrand concluded that Shan and Alloi were gone, his thoughts turned
urgently to Sandin.
He pointed the lens in the direction of the Darhet s last position. Dreibrand
was just in time to see the battle flags of the Darhet rise again.
Dreibrand lingered a moment and viewed Sandin as he moved about rousing his
men. The sight of his rival briefly mesmerized Dreibrand as he contemplated
how to stop the man who would surely order his army to resume fighting.
Dreibrand put away his spyglass and woke up the nearest soldier, who stared at
him with confusion but not alarm. He simply did not recognize the Atrophaney
warrior who told him that they were safe now.
When Dreibrand moved to the next soldier, the first soldier finally remembered
who Dreibrand was.
"You are the renegade," he said, shaking with cold and coughing.
"I am the man who stopped the King of Jingten from killing all of you,"
Dreibrand said. "Now get moving before you freeze."
After Dreibrand roused a few men, he bade them to begin waking more soldiers.
They complied, but
Dreibrand could tell that they were uncertain about his presence. No one
seemed inclined to confront him though.
Hoping to gain more leverage among the dazed Atrophane, Dreibrand inquired
about Commander
Fanlyre. The first men that he asked did not recognize the name or perhaps
they were too upset to think about it. Dreibrand continued through the groggy
groups of survivors until he reached infantry who were under Fanlyre s
command. On this bad day, Dreibrand finally heard a scrap of good news.
Last that the soldiers knew, Fanlyre had still been alive.
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