Butflying dragons off a ship! The Kuusaman bastards have gone and compli-cated the war, curse 'em to powerloss. In Leofsig's presence, Sidroc was more subdued than he was aroundEalstan; Leofsig, visibly a man grown, intimidated him in ways Ealstancould not. I'll try something different, she said. They're harmless.
But that would infuriate notjust Bembo - which wouldn't have bothered Pesaro in the slightest -all the other ordinary constables, too. Ealstan didn't say anything, either. When he'dfirst tried that, he'd laid it on too thick, so that he'd sounded more like aperformer in a bad show than a true man of the countryside. She'd been saying that as long as he'd been taking youngladies out.
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