>>106025461>With that, Duane felt a judgement much keener than any he had cast on her sisters that day, or even the scrutiny the ghers 34 elder had fixed upon him earlier. Looking through it, he remembered his little soldiers again behind his eyes; his little snowy-topped warriors crowded around him, staring bravely at a charging line of snarling hounds and spear-wielding riders. “Every Aldishman is beloved to me,” was all he managed.
Duane is such a funny combination of genuinely good man and terribly indoctrinated fool. If everyone in Alderode believed in it as strongly as Duane did, they'd be doing all right.
