Chapter 720

• “Your Majesty, the surviving rogues have been secured in the dungeons,” Edmund reported to me.
• I was exhausted from the fight of the previous evening and I hadn’t slept yet. I tended to my men, helped Dr. Foirbeis with their injuries, said goodbye to my family, and spoke to the families of the men I’d lost. I couldn’t rest until I saw every fallen Zeta’s family. It was harder this time around, since I’d known about the attack, and I blamed myself for not coming up with a better plan. My focus had been my child and not my warriors.
• Six hundred rogues had descended on our borders minutes before Hati had entered the throne room and the fighting had been brutal. We had lost fifty warriors, in total, and a few hundred more were in the infirmary with serious injuries.