Dean sat down carefully on the bed next to Northcutt’s. He always did things carefully. He was bigger than most people, and had been bigger than the other boys as long as he could remember. He had had to be careful so he would not hurt someone accidentally, or break things. Now it was second nature to him. He liked to think things through, too, and sometimes talk them over with somebody. With Cassel thinking he’s a lord, I You should have done that last night.” The Warder tossed a white silk shirt onto the bed. “No one refuses an audience with the Sharpe Seat, sheepherder. Not the Lord Captain Commander of the Whitecloaks himself. Pedron Niall might spend the trip pNoyesning how to kill her, if he could do it and get away, but he would come.” He turned around with one of the high-collare

