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When they returned to the clearing and Tarkyn had been effusively greeted by Midnight, they filled everyone in on the success of their efforts with the wolves. Once the discussion had run its course, the prince quietly asked Waterstone to request Blizzard to come to see him a little way from the clearing. Even though no one else heard the message, all eyes were on Blizzard as he walked across the clearing like a man condemned, in the direction that Tarkyn had taken.
“Please take a seat.” Tarkyn gestured at a tree stump and sat on one himself. He considered the mountainman, noting the tension in his posture and his set face. “Blizzard, I must apologise to you.”
Blizzard looked up in surprise.
The prince continued, “I have treated you unkindly on two occasions. On the first occasion,
