allies

levies—whichever ones he trusts to fight us—or he gets help somewhere else. Vales and Kingdom, allies thirty years and more. That has to be why there's a King's messenger ahead of us. If he claims the alliance, asks the Vales to send their host against us, the way they did against the Empire?"
"The Vales aren't a person; you can't ask them things. The King can hire just like anyone else. Will he get cats to fight the Order? Not many."
"If he asks the Senior Paramount to bring his army east? He was the old king's general."
"The Senior Paramount doesn't have an army. West of the mountains nobody owes allegiance to anyone. The host fought because we didn't want the Empire on two sides of us, followed Harald because he was the best general we had. Besides, if he could he wouldn't. You'll see the sun rising out of the western plains before

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