![]() ![]() ![]() During the intervening years, many of their captains had died in Prussian captivity or from age or sickness the bereft dragons were full of bitterness, which had easily enough been turned to Polish also, formed of dragons released from the Prussian breeding-grounds where they had been pent up since the final partition ten years before. ![]() ![]() The countryside was alive with French patrols, and He asked for volunteers to go hunting and sent Martin and Dunne. "We will stay another day," Laurence said in the morning more an observation than a decision: Temeraire was grey and limp with exhaustion, and the rest of them hardly in better state. They were grateful for the shelter nonetheless, Temeraire huddling for concealment into the square made by the ruined walls, the rest of them sheltering in the single narrow gallery, full of red brick dust and crumbled white mortar. It was little more than a gutted shell now, one wall held up between half-crumbled towers, windows that faced onto open fields on both sides. THE SMALL CASTLE had been built of red brick, a long time ago: wars had battered it peasants looking for building materials had dismantled it rain and snow had melted down its edges. ![]()
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