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‘He won’t listen to you any more than he’ll listen to me, Torl’

‘I just have to speak to hian,’ Torl replied

Danal read Narasan’s written coave up ‘It’ll take about an hour to get all of our ships over to the other side of the river,’ he said ‘Will that cause you any serious proble down that steep stream-bed, but we’ll need to have our ships up here so that we can get everybody on board We’ll probably be out of your way bytomorrow’

‘I’d appreciate that, Captain Torl,’ Danal said He hesitated slightly ‘Is the commander absolutely certain that this second invasion will involve Trogites?’ he asked

‘Our inforadier Evidently, the Trogite church is very interested in the Land of Dhrall’

‘The church?’ Danal exclaimed

‘That’s what our source told us’

‘Would you like sorinned ‘I think we can handle it, ather that you’re none too fond of church people?’

‘Try the other side of "fond", Captain Torl I hate the Ao on down there and spank them for you, then - and probably send the of so just a little more severe’

‘So was I, Danal "Spank" doesn’t even co to do to those rascals’

‘Good I’ll go get my ships out of your way’ Danal turned and went on down to the riverbank

‘What was that piece of paper all about, Torl?’ Sorgan asked

‘It was an order froet to tell you that I had it tucked upcloser attention to all these picky little details It ot to pull the bow-string all the way back, Iron-Fist,’ Torl chided his firstships e go past the arrows to hit the ships, not to come down in the water Water doesn’t burn very well’

‘Where in the world did you come up with this here idear, Cap’n?’ Iron-Fist deboer a snake-h t’ be stuck here on board the Lark when ever’body went a-runnin’ on up the ravine, Cap’n’

‘I wouldn’t exactly call a broken leg a stroke of luck, old friend,’ Torl disagreed