Incus

For four days this strong cold wind had driven the fleet apace toward the kingdom of Incus.

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But I was more confounded to learn that the clans of Incus were already at war among themselves, fighting old feuds and contending over whether Queenmother Caelum or her son should rule the kingdom.

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Besides, we have Blood of Torrent in our army too, as pure as any here in Incus.

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In the Kingswood it would have been thought a fine manor; here in Incus it was a middling poor one.

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I hailed him, and asked in the High, “Where are we going, Corvus Rex Incus, Master of Bastards?”

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Would you go back to Corymb if you could have Incus?

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Garrio, I thank you, I thank all my friends—but how long would your gift last on the road to Incus?

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Perhaps you have a third orange dream—orange is also the color of the meneidon Lynx, Lynx Foresight we call her in Incus, because she gives true foretellings, ein?

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I was reminded that Katabaton ruled the shades of Lambanein, as the Queen of the Dead ruled the fallen of Corymb and Incus.

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We crossed the Ouraios River to the western bank over the three bridges, and we were a vaster throng, it seemed to me, than the army King Thyrse had taken to Incus.

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