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"I promise." His eyes were filled with concern for her and his child. His attention was divided. It was in his face and his composure.

Cedric had never seen his king, his friend, like that before. And it was a bad way to be in the face of war. So he spoke up to his friend. "This is when you have to be most calm, Leonidas. You must keep it all together. That is the only way we can win this war."