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‘For absent friends,’ he said. And he tossed the empty jar back to Druze with a smile.
Then he turned and limped away down the passageway, leaning now on the stick, now on the slender frame of the boy beside him. Ardashir and Druze watched him go, the stick clicking on the marble floor, his shadow passing along the walls until he was round the corner and out of sight.

Great action scenes, no character is beyond death's touch. I also love the chapter titles. Both armies getting closer and closer to that battle that everyone believes will eclipse the battle of The Ten Thousand fought 30 years before.

‘They think I am a monster, Kuthra. The spoilt, twisted product of my mother’s ambition. Perhaps they are right. But I will tell you something they do not know.’ He paused, lowered his voice almost as if afraid.
‘My brother, Rakhsar; so charming, so quick with his wit and his smile...He is worse, far worse than I.’