Mariha

We're riding all the way to Tars Fort, on the eastern border between Mariha and the Sirniakan Empire.

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He had stumbled onto the two Mariha girls in a frontier town and purchased them for a desperately cheap price, and for a while he had played the numbers in his head: Should he hire a drover and two donkeys to convey them with the other, smaller goods?

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It's no wonder the Mariha princes fell so swiftly.

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As for the western markets, the Mariha princes have fallen to an army from farther west, barbarians called 'Kin.'

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Nor was the wall so very high, after all; not nearly as tall as the wall of the citadel in Kartu where the town's rulers, whether Mariha princes or Qin commanders, held court.

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In Kartu, of course, the overlords ran everything, even back in the days of the Mariha princes.

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His red-clay coloring and pleasant features reminded Keshad more of his two Mariha slave girls than of the stocky riders with their flat, broad cheekbones, sparse mustaches, and predator's gaze.

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I would bet that the Mariha princes didn't think there was going to be a war twenty years ago, when the first Qin rode out of the west.

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Now that the Qin have conquered the Mariha princedoms, that border lies right up against the most powerful and largest empire known.

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The Mariha girl was combing Mai's hair in long strokes.

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