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"Relight the watch fires! Bring torches…"
While Captain Ipiktok led the assault on the gate with his fellow Tuscans and the defenders rallied to repel them, two figures moved unobtrusively and unnoticed through the tall grass leading to the sally gate more than a hundred paces from the main gate.
"You have to teach me how you did that," Virve said in tones of genuine admiration when they reached the small side gate without so much as a stray arrow fired in their direction. "That isn't any kind of witchcraft that Lady Ashlynn has shared."