Chapter 1806 My Fucking Duty & Service:>Ep16

• Yet alongside the remnants of that final battle, it appeared that efforts were being made to restore what was lost. Gantries and platforms had been erected on the walls of the inner keep, piles of new stonework waiting to be hauled up by either a crane or a telekinetic. That hadn't been in the reports. This place was a gold sink, a place to dump a whole lot of money for no reason. Unless the local liege thought she was in danger of being under siege at some point.
• "Recruit Quen!"
• Shay blinked back to reality. For once, his apparent oafish confusion was not feigned. Looking deep into those steely grey eyes made him temporarily dazed. She was half a head shorter than he was, but her intense stare made some ancestral part of his mind want to shrivel away like a prey animal. That her sunkissed cheeks nevertheless sported adorable freckles was a total nonissue that he didn't even notice that much.