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"What changed?"

"Long ago an enemy battled with thethe city defenseless"

"Exactly The gates were closed and barricaded, but it was no good Those gates came down It wasvery bad Some of the women chose to kill themselves and their children But one woe, was so filled with rage, she rallied the surviving woh They waited until the soldiers were quite drunk and then they killed them They killed them all When the men returned, it was decided that the ain, but they all knew that wasn’t good enough Because a woman has to kno to protect herself So the woranddaughters And with every generation we’ve becoer, more powerful Noe’re a force Noe’re never left defenseless, nothe desire to never feel defenseless again, Izzy nodded and ate ood and she found the spices quite interesting

"Tell us, Izzy," Maskini asked, "how did you becoions?"

Izzy sed the food in her mouth and replied, "Killed a lot"

Éibhear winced at Izzy’s answer Even worse, she didn’t seem to notice that everyone had stopped inat each other

"What Izzy means is--"

"What I mean is I killed A lot That’s what I do No one sends in Izzy the Dangerous to keep the peace or hold a line They send me and my troops in to decimate If they want to keep the peace, they send in General Borden of the Tenth and Thirteenth Legions"

"And this started for youwhen?" Zarah asked

"Well" She took another bite of oxen, thought a on when I was seventeen With the help of on with Talaith?"

"Uh-huh Right after that I was assigned to a legion as a private Then when the war against the Irons and Sovereigns started, I becas beca, puffed out her cheeks a bit, and finally finished with, "Wellyeah It’s been a while"

"All right" Zarah focused on Éibhear "And what about you, Prince Éibhear?"

Izzy giggled, but he ignored her and said, "You can just call me Éibhear We don’t really use titles Wellmy mother does, but that’s because she really likes her title"

"I see And do you serve in your mother’s army?"

Éibhear cleared his throat "Sort of"

"What does ‘sort of’ rave;-runach"

"What’s that?"

"Berserkers," Izzy volunteered