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Astolpho knew immediately upon waking that Michaela was gone.
It didn’t surprise him. She had already left before.
What did surprise him was that it was Bradamante who insisted they find her.
“You saw what she did for her horse,” Bradamante said. “You know she could help the sick men.”
In truth, Astolpho had been astonished by what Michaela did to Rune.
He wondered if Michaela had ever saved someone like that before, or if she tried it for the first time yesterday simply out of desperation.
“It will delay us,” Astolpho said. “Don’t you want to return to camp?”
Bradamante hesitated at that. Not for the sake of her own comfort, he assumed, but because of Rinaldo. Astolpho knew she must be anxious to make sure her brother was all right.
But Bradamante still insisted. “She can’t ha
