Rattleskin Redoubt mandatum

They hadn't lasted long, then. Valiria was bitterly gratified to hear it. They had been good enough not to attack her, but she still resented them for being there at all.

Her eyes narrowed slightly as she looked back at her father when he spoke of Epoch. They were enemies? "What happened?" she asked, "They were kind to me. I was weak and sick and they took me in." She, of course, had bailed on them without a word—poor repayment for their charity. But that was besides the point.