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They let the pale moonlight lead them over the snow to the barns There they found troubleThe largest barn was locked from the inside, and Baerd pointed silently, with a grimace, to a spill of torchlight that showed from under the double doorsHe mimed the presence of a guard The three of them looked upThere was, clearly illuminated by Vidomni's glow, a single small window open, high up on the eastern side Devin looked from Alessan to Baerd and then back to the PrinceHe looked at the bodies of the two men already dead He pointed to the window and then to himself After a long moment Alessan nodded his head In silence, listening to the ragged singing from over in the manor-house, Devin climbed the chanel shopping bags outer wall of the Nievolene barnBy moonlight and by feel he deciphered hand and footholds in the coldWhen he reached the window he looked over his shoulder and saw Ilarion, just rising in the east He slipped through and into the upper loftBelow, a horse whickered softly and Devin caught his breathHis heart thudding, he froze where he was, listeningThere was no other responseIn the sudden, seductive warmth of the barn he crawled cautiously forward and looked down The guard was comprehensively asleepHis uniform was unbuttoned and the lantern on the floor by his side illuminated an empty flask of wineHe must have lost a dice roll, Devin thought, to have been posted so boringly on guard against nothing here quilted white bag among the horses and the straw He went down the ladder without a soundAnd in the flickering light of that barn, amid the smell of hay and animals and spilled red wine Devin killed his first man, plunging his dagger into the Barbadian's throat as the man sleptIt was not the way his dreams of valiant deeds had ever had him doing this It took him a moment to fight back the churning nausea that followedIt's the smell of the wine, he tried to tell himselfThere was also more blood than he'd thought there would beHe wiped his blade clean before he opened the door for the other two "Well done," Baerd said, taking in the sceneHe briefly laid a hand on Devin's shoulder Alessan said nothing, but by the cartier watches wavering light Devin read a disquieting compassion in his eyes Baerd had already set about doing what they had to do They left the guard where he was to be burnedThe informer and the soldier from the Second Company they dragged towards one of the outbuildingsBaerd studied the situation carefully for a few moments, refusing to be rushed, then he placed the two bodies in a particular way, and wedged the door in front of them convincingly shut with what Devin assumed would later appear to be a dislodged beam The singing from the manor had gradually been fading awayNow it had come down to a single voice drunkenly caroling a melancholy refrain about love lost long agoFinally that voice, too, fell silent Which chanel purses and handbags was Alessan's cueAt his signal they simultaneously set fire to the dry straw and wood in the guarded barn and two of the adjacent outbuildings, including the one where the dead men were trappedBy the time they were off the property the Nievolene barns were an inferno of flameHorses were screaming There was no pursuitThey hadn't expected anyAlessan and Sandre had worked it out very carefully back in FerrautThe charred bodies of the informer and the Second Company soldier would be found by Karalius's menThe mercenaries of the First Company would draw the obvious conclusion They reclaimed their horses and headed westThey spent the night outside again in the cold taking turns on watchIt had gone very tiffany replica wel