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"The order will have to wait, lass" The weaponsas cover "Perhaps you could co, Mr Turner," she snapped "The suzerain needs more copper rounds, immediately, and this vendor has put us on hold Would you care to tell Lord Lucan that he can’t use his weapons because the aood; ourfemales," Jayr said over the earpiece "Show no fear or hesitation I little boys Which in truth is all they are"
An ugly lare in that direction "Excuse ?"
"Do not drop your eyes or twitch a e your authority now"
"Froe Kyn, a bullnecked beast with spiked brassy hair, offered her a sneer "What can you do, Pearl Girl?"
"That sounds like the instigator," Jayr said
One that thinks he’s a poet, too Chris i into a lime, and let her expression , sir, and I do whatever Lord Alenfar wants What is that?" Before anyone could answer, she walked between the men, scooped up the tattered paper, and scanned it "This is an official su on the floor?"
One of the jardin warriors nodded at the visitors "They tore it down before we could see it"
Another visitor said soe
"He says we took it from them," the jardin warrior translated for her, "before they were done with it But they cannot understand the summons" He nodded at the spike-haired visitor "Only that one speaks English"
"Is that all?" Chris sighed and eyed the sumh Lord of the Darkyn, Chosen Ruler of the Realms, Territories, and Jardins, Defender of Truth and Eternity, to Our right trusty and well-beloved seigneurs, lords and lady paras’" She lifted her head and regarded the visitor’s only English speaker "You can tell the ‘Hi, everyone’"
"I told them what it means," the spike-haired warrior said
"Good--then you should have no proble the rest of this for your friends" She ski out loud the important parts "He writes, ‘The Scroll of Falkonera, stolen of late by our eneuardian Helada’ Sounds like the thieves fell victies, and how he coe the scroll, and so on and so forth"
"Go to the end and read, Miss Christian," one of the jardin warriors urged "The bit about the jewels"
"Jewels, jewels" Chris skipped ahead to the final paragraph of the su ‘We therefore are well pleased to offer, for the elirievous threat, recompense to any oath-bound warrior of the Darkyn who should carry out a search to locate and secure the three gems To he who successfully concludes this mission and delivers unto Us all three erant the title of suzerain and rule of the territory of Ireland, including all present rights, properties, weapons, guards, warriors, and servants apportioned to the Irish jardin’" She barely controlled a wince "‘Given at Ì Àrd this first day of Noven--’"
"Aye, all of Ireland for the jewels," the spike-haired visitor crowed, interrupting her "I’ve told that to my brothers as well In but a handful of days it shall be ours"
"This is not your territory," a jardin warrior said "It is ours to search"
"Excuse me Excuse ry s to Lord Alenfar, and he decides what happens here All requests to search for anything will be made to him" She turned to the visitors "If you have a problem with that, you can take it up with the suzerain, as he prefers to h I arn you, he takes a very hands-on approach" She described Lucan’s ability to shatter bones and rend flesh with a single touch before she said to the spike-haired warrior, "Make sure your friends understand exactly what I just said"
As the spike-haired warrior sullenly translated her words, the visiting Kyn lowered their weapons, and after a moment the jardin warriors did the same
"Now, if you don’t mind, I have to take care of the master’s business with Mr Turner" She nodded at their swords "Lord Alenfar doesn’t allow sparring in the tunnels, and besides that, stronghold visitors are required to disarm upon arrival You ood care of them" When none of them moved, she took out her mobile from her pocket and held a thumb over the keys "I can call the suzerain and have him come down here to explain his policy to you Personally"
The spike-haired warrior translated one final tily moved one by one to place their blades on the counter
Chris almost said "thank you" before she swiveled around to face Turner and tap the invoice with an ier "Now, about this ammunition back order I checked the tere fourteen, if the supplier can’t deliver on schedule, a penalty charge of"