CHAPTER 14
Trust not your emotions alone, for they can be deceiving.
Nor do not solely rely on logic
To save you from a fate unseen.
To view the world with only one vision
is a deadly trap.
The True Believer must have both in order to survive.
-FROM THE BOOK OF ST. ALBANS-
“What do you need from me this night?”
Sitting across from Brandeis Lavine I told him of my latest encounter with the Rogarian wizard, Iaegor of Lincoln and his Niscian captives and my plans to rescue them. I told him I needed Great Wing riders who were willing to defy authorities. I told him it was time to begin building the army needed to defy the Hartooth and possibly save the Malawei from almost assured destruction.
“Thirty thousand Hartooth pike are in winter camp just north of Malagna. Another fifteen tho
