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Thornden smiled back, although he still did not understand. For him, it was the principle of the matter that would have decided the issue in his mind, not whether or no other men knew about it. But it had been clear from the very beginning that Athanar thought and acted very differently than he.
“As friends, my lord. You have treated me with unexpected lenience, and I thank you. I am glad that you are willing to see what I have tried to tell you, and I hope that soon, our men will be able to make friends and see eye to eye. But do not bring back up the trouble that the soldiers fought over that first day. Put it behind us all.”
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