Summer 1098 SR
She reached dry land and waited for her knights. Half a dozen of them pulled the boat farther up, lest it float away, while the rest took up positions on either side of Charlaine.
To her front, she could make out the lighter green tabards of the provincial troops surrounding the mounted Cunars. The grey-clad knights had engaged the bigger threat, the elite Halvarian warriors, but in their haste, they"d allowed themselves to be flanked. Farther east, the rest of the Cunars, those on foot, struggled to hold the line close to the palisade.
Captain Waleed had planned to send warriors east and west, but Charlaine saw no sign of the Mathewites, but then she felt a tug on her arm. Barbek pointed towards the east, farther down the beach.
"There," he said. "Do you see them? A lar
