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burst into tears of frustration. At that moment, for all she knew, Simon might be fighting, and her selfishness had deprived her of saying farewell to him. |
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Cursing herself, she climbed to the women's quarters, but the questions and greetings that met her drove her nearly to distraction, and she fled down to speak to the old knight again. She soon understood that no attack would take place until that night and that the troops could not even have arrived at Grosmount yet. At first this frustrated her even more because she knew she would have to wait that much longer before she had news of the result of the battle, but she could not leave the subject alone. Pressing for this detail and that, she finally realized she had extracted directions for getting to Grosmount and a good knowledge of the surrounding area. |
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At this point, the crazy notion of riding to join her father's army took hold of her. She knew it was crazy; she knew Simon and her father would be fit to murder her just for thinking such a scheme. She put the idea awayfor all of five minutes. Each time it recurred, it became more irresistible, and she could not see that it could really do any harm. Excusing herself abruptly, she went down to speak to her four men, nearly tripping over Math, who had been following her like a stripped shadow ever since he had been released from his traveling basket. This was most unusual. Math's normal behavior was to explore any new place with extreme thoroughness, reducing all the other domestic animals to subjection and ignoring his mistress until he was in full command. |
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Rhiannon broached her idea to her men, half-expecting that they would threaten to tie her down as a madwoman or say that Kicva had specifically ordered them on no account to permit her to do such lunacy. Instead, a light of avarice and adventure lit all four pairs of eyes. |
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"Do you know the way, mistress?" Twm asked. "This |
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