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"Maybe there are no more brigands. Worse than that I did not find. The ones who held me captive are no more."
She stood straighter, remembering who she had been among them.
"Truth to tell, near the end I led them though they would not admit it, and my plans made them more dangerous than ever. So it was that we became too greedy and tested the margins of Edoras. So it was we faced a foe greater than any we had till then. I speak, of course, of Eodwine and his folk, and I saw a greater likely ally than the one I had and so worked what wiles I had to do in the brigands and place myself as well as I might with Eodwine."
She looked at Nydfara, suddenly realizing that she had said far more than she had intended. Her face hardened.
"It is your turn to pay the debt of so much news of me. Tell me about you and Sorn."
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