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"Did they say where they were going?" Lind asked, "To seek refuge with whom?"
"Baya?" Dominic said.
"Who?" Lind heard a name unfamiliar to him.
He hadn't wondered how Ronan's sons, who couldn't pass through the fortress, communicated with the other side. These guys could exchange "hisses," so they surely had a way to communicate across great distances.
And using birds as messengers was hardly a cutting-edge technique.
"A newly risen Grand Lord," said Almet Flame Wing this time, "He was once a knight of the Duke of the Mountains' Wrath, but he stabbed the Duke in the back just as he was about to descend into complete madness."
"An Oathbreaker!" someone cursed angrily.
Compared to the loyalty of Ronan's sons, the actions of that Knight Baya were indeed deplorable.
"He inherited everything from the Duke?" Lind inquired.
"Everything!"
