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"Protect us nudeinpublic-assesinpublic? The White Stag? Where was he when about the in king drove Rolf the Outlaw into our lands? Rolf slaughtered my grandfather and raped you when you public were barely more than a girl public. Then he bought his majesty off with an oath of fealty for him public and his forty warriors nude. It is too late for protection."

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"Ay."

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