off your armor? You smell like an iron pot."
Ce'Nedra began to Women Pic laugh.
In the days that
followed, a number of people left Riva on important
missions. Barak sailed north to Val Alorn to attend the Women Pic outfitting of the
Cherek fleet. Mandorallen left for Vo Mimbre to report to King Korodullin.
The fiery young Lelldorin, who had received a pardon at Garion's request,
Women Pic took ship to return to Asturia to make certain preparations there. Hettar,
Relg, and Colonel Brendig departed for Camaar, where they would separate
and each would return Women Pic home to oversee the final stages of the mobilization.
Events, Women Pic which always moved at their own pace, began to stir and quicken as
the West moved Women Pic inexorably toward war.
Chapter Twenty-four
Women Pic PRINCESS CE'NEDRA SOON discovered that Alorns were a surprisingly emotional
people. She was forced from the outset to abandon the stereotyped Tolnedran
view of this northern race as brutish savages, ravening on the extreme
edges of civilization. She found them instead Women Pic to be an extraordinarily
complex
people often capable of Women Pic an extreme range of highly subtle emotions.
There was nothing subtle, however, about the apoplectic fury of King Anheg
of Cherek when he came bursting into the council chamber a few days later
with his eyes bulging and his face aflame.
"Do you have any idea what you've done?" he bellowed at Ce'Nedra.
"Done to what, your Majesty?" she replied calmly.
"To Cherek!" he shouted, his dented crown Women Pic sliding down over one ear. "This
little game you've been playing gave my wife the brilliant idea that she's
going Women Pic to run my country while I'm gone."
"She's your wife, Women Pic King Anheg," Ce'Nedra pointed out Women Pic coolly. "It's only
proper that she should mind the kingdom in your absence."
"Mind?" he almost screamed. "Islena doesn't have a Women Pic mind. There's nothing
between her Women Pic ears but empty air." "Why did you marry her then?"
" It certainly wasn'
t for her mind."
"She might surprise you, Women Pic Anheg," King Rhodar suggested with Women Pic an amused look
on his face.
"The only Women Pic thing that would surprise me would be to find anything left when
I get back," Anheg retorted, collapsing in a chair. "And there's Women Pic nothing I
can do to stop her. No Women Pic matter what I say, she'll assume the throne as soon
as I leave. It's going Women Pic to be a disaster. Women have no business Women Pic in
Women Pic politics. They're too weak-brained for Women Pic it."
"I'Women Pic m afraid that