Get moving, you lousy lugs, Panfilo rumbled as he surged to hisfeet. Spitefully, HajaJJwondered if it had concerned his father. On returming to his own side of the truce line, he had a crystallmancer link him to his sovereign up in Bishah. The mud did its best topull the boots night off his feet.
Several of the men in the labor gang wereKaunians, too, but Burgred didn't bother trying to keep his voice down. The age-old ritual with thesoothed Pekka, as it always did. One of the students in the front row muttered discontentedly to herbenchmate: What does she think we are, morons? They knew thatmuch back in the Kaunian Empire. Had we wanted a fool, a dunce, to lead the armies of Unkerlant restassured we could have found one.
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