“That bad?” he asked in surprise. Had the Emperor’s people been harassing his without his knowledge? “No-oo, not exactly,” Lesley assured him, calming his alarm. “Just—I’m Landwise, as was my da, and my da’s da, and his before him. I can feel it, Kordas. It’s like a great big lump of poison sitting out there to the east and south of us. All my life,
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