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Adain snapped. “Blood and fire, you are such a bastard!”
    â€œFine. If the lot of you are going to get so girly about all this.” He turned away from his brothers and winked at Bram. And Bram, for the first time, felt a little more at ease. Especially since it seemed Addolgar would spend more time torturing his siblings than bothering with Bram.
    â€œThere you are!” Addolgar announced when his sister approached them. “The royal here said you went off to take a piss.”
    â€œDon’t involve me in this,” Bram told him.
    â€œRight,” Ghleanna sighed. “That seems a very Bram thing to do. Announce that I’m off to take a piss. Next he’ll tell you when I’m about to take a sh—”
    â€œCan we just go?” Cai—thankfully—cut in.
    Ghleanna sized the youngster up. “When did you get so girly?”
    â€œSo where are we taking him?” Addolgar asked.
    â€œTo the east,” Bram explained. “The Port of Awbrey. There will be a boat there that will take us up the coast to the Alsandair ports. I’ll meet my contact there.”
    â€œA boat?” Adain asked, frowning. “Why are you taking a boat? Why not just fly into the Desert Lands?”
    â€œFlying into the Desert Lands would be seen as a sign of aggression by the Sand Dragons. And it’s faster to go by sea than to walk.
    â€œThat far south,” Ghleanna explained, “we’ve always traveled by foot unless escorted.”
    â€œWhy not fly over the ocean then?”
    Bram, Addolgar, and Ghleanna laughed outright at that.
    â€œGods,” Bram observed, “they are young.”
    â€œWhat does that mean?”
    â€œIt means you’ve got much to learn about Sea Dragons,” Ghleanna answered.
    Addolgar explained, “If more than one or two dragons fly too far over the ocean, the Fins will definitely consider that a sign of aggression.”
    Hew asked Bram, “So you really can’t make it on your own?” Bram could make it by himself easily, but he had his reasons for not flying over the ocean, alone or otherwise. Very good reasons. “Are you feeble in some way?”
    â€œBabysitting the royal is Bercelak’s idea.” Ghleanna told them. “You going to disagree with him, brothers?” When her younger siblings didn’t answer, she nodded. “That’s what I thought.”
    â€œDo you have any fighting skills?” Hew pushed.
    â€œI have a mighty flame.”
    The three younger brothers glanced at each other. “Don’t we all?” Cai finally asked.
    â€œMine’s stronger.”
    Cai shook his head. “Gods, that’s pathetic.”
    Addolgar slapped Cai in the back of the head—ignoring his cry of pain—and asked, “Do you want to move out tonight, Ghleanna?”
    â€œNo. We leave at first light.”
    â€œThat’s fine. We can all camp here for the night.”
    â€œNo need. We can stay at Lord Bram’s castle.”
    Bram’s entire body jerked. “They can?”
    â€œGet your gear,” she told her kin.
    â€œWhy are you doing this to me?” Bram demanded once Ghleanna’s brothers had walked away. “Do you hate me so much?”
    â€œYou are the one who wants my brothers to like him.”
    â€œNo, I don’t. I couldn’t care less if they like me or not.”
    â€œWell, they’ll like you much better if they have a soft bed and warm food—or at least a cow or two—for the night. And what could it hurt?”
    â€œWhat if they disturb my things? My papers.” Bram began to panic. “My books!”
    Ghleanna laughed. “And what, exactly, do you expect my kin to do to your precious books? If they notice your books at all, I’ll be shocked.” She stepped closer, surprising Bram, and brushed her hand against his shoulder. “I won’t let my brothers harm your books or your