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The next morning, when the rain had ceased and the chirping of birds came faintly from the eaves, the maidens began to tiptoe up and down the temple, lighting incense to dispel the damp and cold air, and Anna was still asleep on the couch behind the slightly swaying curtains.

Gawain's head was lowered, and he rubbed against the hilt of the Sword of Phosphorus Fire, and his eyes couldn't be opened.

A long shadow fell on him, Gawain raised his eyebrows, it was Queen Irene standing in front of him, nodding slightly at him, expressing great satisfaction, "It seems that Anna's situation can be stabilized, I heard about your care for the eldest princess yesterday, with a warrior like you, Anna can get rest." ”

Gawain stood up and bowed to the queen's breast.

"Leave it to me here, you go to the Sarabria military camp as soon as possible, and set off for Italy with the army that His Majesty promised you!"

"Yes, there is." As Gawain was leaving, the queen suddenly remembered, reminded him to stop, and then said with a smile, "Immediately in the barracks, I will send a messenger to bring a gift, which Anna specially gave you." ”

In Salabria's camp, the Catcher was already standing dumbfounded, looking at the huge armor in the center, which was indeed the "Holy Armor" carefully forged from the Imperial Royal Armory, in a thick Persian style, lined with beautiful leather, and covered with light and strong armor, shining with dazzling light, elbows, shoulders, and ribs protection, and then Gawain saw that on top of the iron helmet, there was a "feather ornament" made of horns and beautiful red feathers—the shape of an outstretched hand.

"Red Hand detachment......" Gawain raised his hand, stroked the feather, and muttered.

"It was sent by the eldest princess and the queen in person." The guard's voice began to sway, and he couldn't help but be extremely excited.

"Diognes, tomorrow we will set out from Sarabra, and the day we agreed with the Amalfi Chamber of Commerce has passed seven days." Gawain said.

Hearing this, the arresting officer's eyes flashed with a hint of unnaturalness, and he went to the table to straighten out the pleadings, and told Gawain, "Now that the Emperor's other part has been cut off, the Monastery of Gallipoli is in fact the stronghold of the remnants of the Pauline faction, and that deacon has been publicly executed and burned in front of the Grand Palace by His Majesty. ”

"What about the inheritance of the Holy Monastery?"

"The secular patron appointed by the emperor in advance was accepted and incorporated into the Imperial Property Division." The guard's answer was not unexpected by Gao Wen.

At this time, outside the tent, Sabina's smug hiss caught Gawain's attention, and he came out and saw Sabina, who was deliberately boasting of her beauty in front of him: she was dressed in a waistcoat of fine linen, and a silver-plated hanging, on which hung a small fuchsia tassel bell, and on the halter there was a "red feather ornament" identical to that of her master. is raising his tail, in front of Gawain's eyes, running back and forth over and over again

In the Brachna Palace, Anna dreamed of many, many dreams of the past and the future, in her almost six-hour dream, but for the time being she had forgotten the horrible sights she had seen, and she opened her eyes and saw the shadow of the curtain still being, and she laughed with relief, but for a moment she felt that it was wrong: this shadow was thin, not Gawain's.

She hurriedly got up, and before she could even straighten her hair, she lifted the curtain with her loose nightgown.

It was the mother who sat there.

And the father stood at the next pillar.

So the sentence on his lips was also swallowed, and it was obvious that his parents were facing each other.

"Why don't you give me John's custody or give it to Marlena." After seeing Anna walk out, Erin protested against Alexios with tears in her voice.

"The Patriarch has approved of this, and my mother has sent a letter from the monastery, saying that it is fairest that the heirs should be raised separately for the sake of the Empire." Alexios's words, I can't see what his own attitude is.

As Irene was about to defend herself, the Emperor interrupted her, "As the Empress, you have to work hard to find a new betrothal for Anna, instead of messing around here and disrupting the peaceful order of the court. ”

"Queen? No, I'm not a queen, I'm just a mother, I'm a wife, I have the power to love and the hate. Irene was bitter, as if the golden avenue that had unfolded in front of her had been flooded by the bitter sea again, "Queen Mother, Patriarch." You will only unilaterally present them with one-sided words, the Queen Mother is in the monastery, the Patriarch is in the Cathedral of the Holy Wisdom and you are blinded by you, has anyone paid attention to my thoughts? ”

"Shut up!" Emperor Alexios was furious, "Watch your words, even if you are the Empress. ”

"I repeat, I'm not a queen." Irene's jaw trembled, she held Anna, deadly, "You always thought that my family was an ally of Komnenos, and you were as cold and calculating as a business partner to me, I had enough of suffering over the years, and I was fed up with wearing the mask of 'emperor' and 'empress', playing clumsy tricks in this palace built with hypocrisy, deceiving others and deceiving myself, and deceiving others but deceiving myself. Who knows, when I was twelve years old, as old as Anna, in the hunting garden of Thrace, the moment I secretly saw you riding a horse-drawn bow and shooting a deer, I also became that deer in my heart, and now I don't have that feeling anymore, no more, my heart has been like a cave in the Thracian mountains, the wind blows past, leaving only a terrible whistling, no flesh and blood, only layers of stones built there, empty and meaningless! After saying this, Irene's face changed greatly, and she knelt down, and held her head, her shoulders twitched, and turned into a low wail, and all the eunuch maids around her were at a loss,

Alexios didn't answer anything, he didn't know what to say, so he could only look at Anna, then turned around with mixed feelings, and left surrounded by the guards.

Anna then grabbed her mother's shoulders and cried and begged her mother to stop mourning, "I will respect any arrangements you make." ”

"Will you become that kind of cave too?" Erin smiled wryly, with tears in her eyes, and shook her daughter's hand.

At this time, the maid who took the lead quietly walked over, "This is handed over to you by the emperor's chief of guard, Her Royal Highness the eldest princess." ”

Anna unfolded the scroll of paper with a line that read, "Sarabria, open this evening, don't forget the walls." ”

When the rain was over, the late summer wind was cool, the rainbow hung over the Brachna Palace, Anna ran, step by step, stepping on the refracted water, up the tower of the palace against the corner of the northwest mountain range, her hand on the battlement, the hair on her forehead was blown to the sides, and her body was still weak after recovery, so that her eyes could not react to the sunset light coming from the front for a while.

But below, in the wilderness of Sarabria, the Tekopo mercenaries, wearing helmets and uniforms, were flying the red hand banner and carrying bows and arrows and quivers, and they passed by in a mighty way.