“Can you call to him? The way you did to the Volgar?” I was stunned that he knew and wondered how many of Tiras’s warriors had heard me beckon the enemy in Kilmorda. He is more man than an animal. The Volgar are simple. Tiras is not. “He is not simple. But he is a bird as often as he is a man. Maybe more often,” he murmured, and my heart grew heavier in my chest. I walked to the open doors and raised my face to the sky. Then I closed my eyes and thought of the white-capped bird with the sooty black feathers. I saw the span of his wings with the fiery red tips, unlike any bird I’d ever seen,
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