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JOCASSA’S WORDS made Mikandra so angry that she barely spoke to him on the way back. All right, so she was a noble fool who didn’t want to live. Survival was a noble word. She almost told him who she was and what this was really about and that he and his mates got his retention payments from the Mirani army because of the levies paid to the Mirani council by Traders.
When they arrived in the courtyard, he went to join his friends and invited her to come.
“No. I’m going to bed.”
“What’s up with you? Youz been cranky all th’ way back here. What’d I say?”
“Some people do things because they feel it’s the right thing to do. Not everyone does things only if they benefit themselves. Not everyone is that selfish.”
He frowned at her. “I’s helping you, right?”
Not without a benefit to him
