“You should pay more attention to rumors,” his father told him. As Audrite caught her breath, Lleyn nodded. “I see you’ve taken my meaning, my dear.” Chadric’s plain, pleasant face tightened to grimness. “If you’re talking about that possible son of Roelstra’s—” “He’ll be nearing twenty-one. Pol’s barely fourteen,” Lleyn remarked. “But it’s ludicrous!” Audrite protested. “Even if the boy is Roelstra’s, he’d have to rally all Princemarch behind him. And that won’t happen. Rohan has done well by them in making Pandsala regent—no one but a fool would trade certain prosperity for an unknown
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