“For my part, if you had asked me yesterday, I would have shouted at the thought of women beside me in a spearwall, or trusting one with my back in sharak.” He looked at Shanvah, and his aura filled with love. “But I cannot deny that when I watched those two warriors fight, it was glorious. I can think of none, even Spears of the Deliverer, who could have fought better. When they unveiled and I saw my daughter’s face, it was not shock or anger I felt, it was pride.” Shanvah returned her father’s look. Jardir could see in the emotions connecting them that she barely knew the man—ignored by him
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