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Blast them!” exclaimed Tarkyn, in response to a report back from the woodfolk near the edge of the forest. “Now we’ll have to start our planning all over again. How can we penetrate their shields? We can’t.”
“Never mind,” said Stormaway. “I’m not sure the idea of me disguising myself as one of the brothers and slipping into the king’s tent would have been all that safe. What if one of them had decided to go back to the tent himself or someone who had just seen the two of them together, had walked into me?”
“Well, if you had wanted to place the basket of fruit and flowers while the king was sleeping, you couldn’t have disguised yourself as the king anyway. People would know he was already inside the tent,” protested Rainstorm. “And it wouldn’t be half so scary for him to discover that
