Invisible branches, leaves, and pine boughs slapped them, whipped them, beat them. The horses made a jarring turn into the thick of the wood. Overhead they heard a rush of movement in the leaves. The heir has enemies and, as fond as I haveīlur as the wind drew tears from his eyes. I’ve already told you more than I should have. Time can destroy so many things.” “But you are trying nevertheless.” “What else is there for an old crippled outlaw to do?” “Care to tell me how you plan to find them?” “I can’t do that. A way to locate the heir? Something to do with the amulets.” “Nine hundred years ago I would have said yes, but finding their descendants now is probably a fool’s dream. I suspect Jerish would have known the need to perpetuate the line and would have settled down somewhere quiet and encouraged Nevrik to marry and have children.” “And wait for you?” “ What’s that?” “That was the plan, wasn’t it? They run and hide and you stay behind and find them when it was safe?” “Something like that.” “ So you had a way to contact them. So would their great-great-grandchildren if they had any. They would both be dead now, of course-time would have seen to that. Like all Teshlor knights, Jerish was a master of all the schools of combat there wouldn’t have been a man alive who could beat him in battle, and he would have died before surrendering Nevrik. The fact that he trusted his son to his care was testament to that. Despite his age, he was one of the best knights the emperor had. If anyone could have kept Nevrik alive, it would have been Jerish.
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