He ruffles my hair and stays to join in for a while, helping me to retrieve the ball and giving it to me to kick back to the twins. He speaks shortly to them as he leaves.“What did he say?” asked Waterstone.
“He said, ‘Don’t let this one go the way of the other’.” Tarkyn slowly shook his head, “I’ve never thought about those words before. I just remembered what he did. But they are strange, aren’t they? They don’t make a lot of sense.”
“Maybe they had already scared off Danton or one of their friends?” suggested the woodman.
Tarkyn gave a whimsical little smile, “No Waterstone, you’re not thinking. Friends or courtiers wouldn’t have been allowed to be scared off. They would have had to stay at the princes’ pleasure and take anything Kosar and Jarand dished out, whenever they felt like i
