Isabel watched him vanish beneath the barbican and felt as though she had been abandoned to face the enemy without weapons or protection. The shield of cold indifference, the sword of anger, had both been snatched from her by Ralf's warning.
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Instead of worrying about what fitzAlan might do to her after her last defiant outburst she could only think that he might be in danger.
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