it. “I never did. Why couldn’t she understand that?” “Well, you did put a blade in her back.” “I didn’t want things to be like this.” “Oh, gods, let’s not go down this road again.” “We’d let her have the south if she’d just come to the table. Gods know we’re grateful she got rid of the Mugenese for us. And she’s a good soldier. The very best. We’d happily have her back on our side; we’d make her a general in a heartbeat—” “You seem to have mistaken me for a dullard,” Kitay said. “It’s a tragedy we’re on different sides, Kitay. You know that. We would have been so good united, all three of us.”
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