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with
him in the regiment, ” he said. “He’s a highborn prick and a real nasty
piece of work, one of the only men I met in those years of war who seemed to
take real pleasure in all the death and pain. He was the bastard who blinded
those men at Othem Moat.”
    Kit looked pale and worried. “He’s not the kind of
man to give up,” he said. “He once marched us three days and three nights from
Dunstanine to Clawstone to track down some deserters, by the time we found them
we were all falling asleep on our feet, but he stayed up another three days and
nights torturing them. Sometimes I didn’t think he could be human.” He paused
and looked back towards the village “I hope he didn’t find Miranda in my room.”
    Alexandra patted her brother’s arm. “She’ll be
fine,” she said. “If Miranda Carter knows anything it’s how to survive. I’m
more worried about what we are going to do.”
    “What we are going to do?” Said Harper. “You are
not a part of this Alexandra, this is our problem, mine and Kit’s. You’re going
to go back to the Inn and keep pouring pints. Try to forget we ever came back
to Amvale at all.”
    “Go back to the village and wait for Matt to come
back for me?” She said indignantly. “Without you and Kit around I might as well
just go and give myself to him now. I’m coming with you, Mother can run the Inn
without me.” Harper looked hard at Alexandra, it broke her heart to see it, but
he seemed genuinely angered at the prospect of having to take her along with
him.
    “Are you sure about this?” He said. “The life of
an outlaw is not a happy one, I’ve lived it before, it’s a life of hunger and
paranoia, of constantly looking over your shoulder and wondering where the next
meal is going to come from, do you really want that?” Alexandra looked up at
him with a determined chin and nodded.
    “I’m going to stay with you and Kit, I will never
let Matt take me, even if it means I have to live in tree and eat bloody acorns.”
She said.
    “Alright then” said Harper. “We’ll be outlaws.
Welcome to a life of misery. We need to start walking. There were some
deserters from the regiment who planned to set up a camp on the other side of
the Borset Mountains, we’ll go to them. Christian and I had wanted to stay in
Amvale over the winter to try and win over as many of the village men as
possible and then join them in the spring when the passes had cleared, we’ll
have to go to them a little early.”
    “So you are planning an uprising” said Alexandra
looking at the two men.
    “We are planning to take back what’s ours.” Said
her brother. “This vale, this whole country shouldn’t be owned by just a few
people, and no man should be owned by another, we should not have been sent to
die in the north while King John lounged around in some safe warm brothel in
the Capital. We are going kill the highborn and give the people what should be
their birth-right, the land trees and rivers of this vale.”
    “Kill the highborn? You mean Viviana? The girl
you’ve known since she was born? Who’s always been my friend and your friend?”
Alexandra asked, staring at Kit in open-mouthed horror.
    He steadily returned his sister’s gaze, his
nakedness now forgotten. “If necessary, yes” he said, there was a steel in
voice that Alexandra had never heard before. “The dragons are coming back to
vale, and this time they will rain down fire on behalf of the people not the
Lords.”
    “Shut up Kit, we don’t even know if the eggs are viable.
Now come on.” Said Harper. “The pass will still be open, but we don’t know how
long the snows will hold off. If we’re travelling off the main roads we need to
start moving this second.” He began to stride towards the distant mountain,
Alexandra and Kit fell in behind him. It was funny thought Alexandra, how a
settled life could change beyond all recognition in less time than it took to
drink a pint of beer.

Chapter Six
    Viviana