Beata turned and raced down

 Beata watched as the strange troops waited where they were Nike Heels while only a few people approached. Those were the rules, the way Beata and her squad were taught. People had to wave a flag of some sort, and if there were many, only a few were supposed to approach to state their business and ask permission to pass.
 It wasn't a risk to have a few people approach. The Dominie Dirtch could kill an enemy even if they were only one step away, out in front of it. They would still Nike High Heels die. How close people came was really irrelevant-so was the number, for that matter.
 Four people, two on foot and two on horseback, came forward, leaving the rest behind. As they got closer, she could see it was two men and two women. One man and woman rode, another pair walked. There was something about the woman on horseback...
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 "You see?" Beata Nike heels said to Carine and Annette. "Can you imagine if you'd rung that thing? Can you imagine?"
 The two, jaws agape, stared out at the approaching people. Beata's knees trembled at the thought of what had almost happened.
 Beata turned and shook a fist at the two. "Put that thing away. And don't you dare go near the Dominie Dirtch! Do you understand?"
 Both saluted. Beata turned and raced down the steps two at a time. In her whole life, she never imagined anything Jordan heels like this.
 She never imagined she would actually meet the Mother Confessor herself.
 She gaped, along with the rest of her squad who came out to see, as the woman in the long white dress rode forward. One man rode to her right. A man and woman were on foot. The woman was pregnant. The man on foot, on the Mother Confessor's left, was dressed in loose clothes of no particular style. He had a sword, but kept it sheathed.
 The man riding MBT Shoes Clearance on the Mother Confessor's right was something else entirely. Beata had never seen such a man, all dressed in black, with a golden cape billowing out behind. The sight took her breath.
 Beata wondered if it could be the man she'd heard was to marry the Mother Confessor: Lord Rahl. He certainly looked a lord. He was just about the most imposing-looking man Beata had ever seen.