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"Will he take longer, Iacinthoooo?"
Alexa, or rather, Alexios, was quite bored, in the big tent with his middle brother, Iacintho. The military camp near Belgrade was a large concentration of people, and the Dallassenos were an important part of the political scheme, fundamental to two or more kingdoms, resisting the massive and persistent Ottoman force. Lex had already piled up containers, then read the glossaries, and recalled terms in other languages, aloud, hanging like a bat from the rafters of the big tent. Summing up, really taunting Iacintho, of his brothers the most crabby and least likely to put up with the childishness of his youngest sibling.
The three older brothers knew about Alexios' condition and his secret, which they had to help protect, but they didn't even think about it much in their daily lives. The 14-year-old was an annoyance for other reasons.
