Chapter 27
The Zaldeaan Realm
Ruarnon: Tarlah City, Nine Days After the Siege
Ruarnon walked down a corridor towards the main castle courtyard in an iron cuirass, with an iron scale apron over leather pants, their sword at their right hip and a quiver of arrows on their left. Their stomach writhed. What would their army make of being told they were about to battle monsters to protect their enemies?
Ruarnon stepped through an archway onto the courtyard steps, above phalanxes of Elites equipped with bronze armour, swords, and spears or quivers and bows. They scanned the crowd for their friends, guests, Companions Tor and Noma, and a scholar who would translate Migryan for them. Then they stepped to the edge of the balcony where Monin, Regent in Ruarnon’s absence, inclined his head slight
