09/03/2026 20:45

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I failed to kill ManceRayder because I was in league with him, he says. The guests stood, shouting and applauding and smashing their wine cupstogether as the great pie made its slow way down the length of the hall,wheeled along by a half-dozen beaming cooks. But now you're here to make amends. The long shafts punched through his breastplate as if it had been madeof silk instead of steel.

What will you do, Imp? Kill Gregor myself. And even queerer to sit here crippled. They wereall too tired for talk. Three-Finger Hobb had promised the brothers roast haunch of mammoth thatnight, maybe in hopes of cadging a few more votes.