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"Hand me that torch, will you?" said Pego, who had by that time gotten inside the maintenance rooms. The hallway ahead was pitch black, but there were some torches in the room. Direnu gave her companion a torch and locked the door behind her. Cautiously they headed into the tunnels. It was quiet. Direnu would have expected some noise from machinery, but there was nothing. It almost felt like they were going into a catacomb, until Pego broke the silence like a sledgehammer would an egg. "So," she inquired with a cheeky smile, her words echoing down the hallway. "I noticed you've been gettin' rather friendly with Vare..." "Keep it down!" Dire

After a while, the party reached the tan stone walls of the city. The fog was slowly starting to clear, and Kotha coloured the landscape a vague pink. As the team edged along, Direnu felt cold with her back against the wall. She looked up and thought of the guards that were most likely up there, ready to shoot anyone who had the poor judgement of being seen. Eventually Thojal signalled. She found the entrance; a portion of the wall was very slightly sunken in. A bit of prying made the door open, creating an opening hardly large enough to fit through. Once inside, they found themselves inside a storeroom, filled with barrels and cupboards. Peg

Extract from chapter 2: Vespen Vare and her guards left the encampment shortly afterwards. Vespen was over a hundred kilometres north-west of the front line, close to the old border. As they rode their mounts through the trees of the massive Ra'vemean forest, Pego, one of the Guardians, looked up to the now overcast sky. "Kotha is hiding among the clouds." she said. " 's Usually a bad sign.". Some of the others nodded in silence, and all of them touched the ground with the tip of their sword to avert the bad omen. Only Vare refrained from unsheathing her broadsword. Pego scraped her throat. "My Lord, don't you want Kotha's blessing as well