Chapter 66

"Well as much as I wish you were wrong about the information you got, fifteen thousand men did in fact arrive in the forest today." Cassandra sighed. She placed an imperial crest on the map where their camp was currently positioned. " I really hoped either you would be wrong about the day or their numbers.

"We're pretty good at getting information. We convince them it's in their best interest to cooperate, and that we really, really don't like fake information."

"I would be very interested in learning how you-" Taelin had begun but stopped mid sentence when he saw the smiles on The Black Guard squad leader's faces. "Yea never mind. So both fortunately and unfortunately they are proceeding slowly. While it means giving us more time to prepare, Obviously their leader is not incompetent enough to not notice over a thousand men going missing so he's moving in slow and being as safe as possible."

"So they're not triggering as many traps as we would like?" Mumbled Cassandra