Chapter Thirteen
Attacks
The Battle Lord was in deep discussion inside his tent with three other men when Yulen and Atty entered. Yulen dismissed the soldier who had led them there. There was no need to be announced. Every Battle Lord camped in or near the compound knew who their host was.
The middle-aged man still sported the body of a man half his age, but the brown hair sprouted wisps of gray. Like many of the Battle Lords converging on Alta Novis, Tabert continued to lead his soldiers in making yearly cleaning sweeps around his compound. With luck, that might cease once the talks were over.
As Yulen expected, the man’s attention went immediately to Atty’s deep blue hair, and his eyebrows rose in response, but the Battle Lord continued giving orders regarding the placement of his te
