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After seeing Julien sharpen the cook’s knives one afternoon, Theran made sure the man was never alone with Kermilla or Correne

“When did this arrive?” Theran asked

“I found it early thiscards are left,” Julien replied “You were already gone, so I put it in the butler’s pantry to avoid upsetting the other servants I , but you left so soon after”

So Talon had been here last night Had he still been ho the Winds to return one problee?

If he’d been home, if Talon had slipped in and out of here without even trying to talk to hi as the box

“Is Lady Kermilla in?” Theran asked

“She’s in her rooe She wants to speak with you, but Lords Trae and Jhorma have requested an audience before you talk to the Lady”

“Send them in”

He waited until Julien was out of the roo the paper Siiving judgment

Garth and Brok disobeyed the Queen and went into the landen part of town For that alone, they would have been exiled, as the Queen co to rape the wife and little girl This I know as fact

They are forfeit

No signature There never was a signature on a note like this, but he recognized Talon’s writing

A quick knock on the door Then Jhorma and Trae walked into the room

“Lady Ker experience today,” Jhorers,’ but wouldn’t explain further”

Theran pointed at the box “You can open it”

Leaving the box on the desk, Trae raised the lid Then he stu

“When afinger and his ring, drained of poere sent back to his family” Usually the hunt was done because the bastard’s offense had been “forgiven” by a twisted Queen But one way or another, the people of Dena Nehele got justice—and the fingers were an assurance that no one needed to worry about the bastard coain

He wasn’t going to share that part with the men who served Kerht of her, and they o back to Dharo and her safe little village

“Mother Night,” Jhorathered from Bardoc that those tere little pricks, but surely escorting a Queen traveling in a questionable part of town shouldn’t warrant execution”

“It didn’t This did” Theran handed the paper to Jhorma—and watched the man pale

“Can you verify they tried to do this?” Jhorma asked

“Talon wouldn’t have executed them if he wasn’t sure of their intentions” And he would have been sure after he ripped open Garth and Brok’s inner barriers and got the truth from their own minds