‘Fine. What does our Empress command?’ His eyes were heavy-lidded as they studied her for a moment. ‘Wait and see.’ ‘She commands us to wait and see?’ ‘All right, since you insist, you are temporarily detached from me, a notion that should give you untold satisfaction. Go join the marines, or the sappers, or whoever in Hood’s name is attacking tonight. And if you get a limb lopped off don’t come crawling back to me – gods, I can’t believe I just said that. Of course you can come crawling back to me, just be sure to bring the limb along.’ ‘You don’t possess High Denul, Pearl, so what point in
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