AMoL: To Die Well

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Lan POV#

Lan kills Fade and then a soldier points out the red beacon of light, indicating it was time for a rotation in forces. The Malkieri would retreat and the Kandori and Arafellin forces would come in. Two Asha'man and Coladara are setting Trolloc corpses aflame to make it tougher for Trollocs to advance. The army is fighting in one hour rotations and is holding the Gap, but Lan realizes sooner or later the Trollocs would be able to advance. The Trollocs didn't have to worry about a food supply as they ate the dead.

Bulen falls from his horse and Lan rushes over only to find him dead from a massive wound in his side that he had been hiding from Lan. Lan lifts Bulen's corpse and places it across the saddle of Bulen's horse. Andere and Prince Kaisel are watching solemnly nearby. Lan tells everyone he will not mourn Bulen but will cheer him because he died well. He then tells the story of Bakh, who also died well. This spurs Prince Kaisel to tell the story about Ragon and Andere to tell the story of Kragil, which spurs the rest of the camp to start telling stories. Lan finds Narishma, who is holding a gateway open for a supply cart, and ask him to find a cold place to store Bulen's body. Narishma closes his gateway and open another onto a mountain top. Lan take Bulen's body and places it there and removed Bulen's hadori and wraps it around the hilt of his sword.

On his way to Lord Agelmar, the ground starts to quake. Hairline cracks appear in the rocks, and Lan feels that there's something wrong with those cracks, like they open into nothingness. The quaking subsides and the cracks disappear.

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