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Stalking
Kyle prowled through another village, this one of medium size with a few decent-looking pubs and inns—not surprising, since it was on the trade route just down from what had become Alex’s favourite haunt on the Tri-Border. Not many of the trade barges bothered to make their way here, preferring to stay in Amberbreak and unload their goods from there.
Keeping to the shadows of the nearby dockhouse, Kyle contemplated the barge moored at the dock. The trade families were a strange people that kept mostly to themselves, dealing only with their select agents. At least, they were like that here in Vallantia. Kyle wondered if they were a little more outgoing in the other countries. He suspected one of the reasons they kept to themselves was Vallantia’s nasty habit of killing those
