This has to be Nicholas Demshir, Admiral of the Fleet. Fayyim had never met the man. He looks a shrewd one. She noticed the elegant looking sword at his side, a basket hilted rapier.


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    to do what was best for us.'' Rafael was silent, but there was some reaction in his eyes that she could not quite decipher. Fayyim sighed. ''That aside, Ashara was never capable of respawning.''


    mean.'' Fayyim adjusted her red ribbon. ''I did not kill Ashara. I imprisoned her.'' She walked ahead. Chew on that.


    That''ll annoy the Amaratese diplomats in the crowd. Fayyim heard the clinking of Cairo''s armour, and then the noise died down. ''Rise.'' Cairo began. ''Commander Fayyim Tallhart, leader of the cherished Red Front, Breaker of Sieges, Defender of the Land and Hero of the South!''