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Jori
Jori stepped back from the balcony as winded and flushed as if he’d just been thoroughly kissed.
From that height, he could actually see Kiria’s troops marching toward the palace. An uncomfortable stab of apprehension lanced him before he could remind himself that this wasn’t an attack. These people weren’t coming to murder but to help. He strained to look for Kiria but she was so small, she could have been heading the column and still been invisible. A helpless little smile crept onto his lips. He felt nearly hysterical.
As he turned back to Bard, Royce, Daelon, and a few Tanyu, his shoulder throbbed. Bard’s poor face, all smudged from beatings and crying. And still he’d managed to come up with a way to get the Tanyu to surrender.
“Could you change out of black, please?” he s
