‘I don’t know what to say,’ Corban muttered, gazing down at the arm-ring, then out at the crowd about him. ‘I have done nothing to deserve this.’ ‘You freed us,’ Javed said, taking a step forward. ‘We were slaves, we would have died with collars around our necks.’ ‘You came to our aid,’ said Wulf, stepping beside Javed and Atilius. ‘Our home was burning, our warriors broken; we’d have died without your help.’ ‘You saved us,’ Balur rumbled. ‘We would have perished in Murias without you.’ ‘And we’d have been slaughtered by the Kadoshim had you not intervened,’ Teca from Narvon said. Cywen
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