"I shall," he says, and bows to her. There is nothing shifting about his stance, nothing hidden in his eyes, nothing ambiguous or shadowed in his aura: if that cannot prove the sincerity of his oath, nothing can. "This war is meant to pit Servant against Servant. To strike against one who has no defense to call their own but flesh and magecraft -- it would be as cowardly as slaying a child."
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