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Seph held her breath as the men stopped on the other side of the barrel, one of them pulling off the lid. A few drops of water sprinkled onto her hood, but she didn’t move. “Probably the least dangerous place for old Lig to be. It’s not as if anyone’s going to attack us anyhow, not with Queen Rona in charge.” He took a drink out of what sounded like a ladle and then handed it on. “True,” one of the other men said. “Too bad this is only water and not whisky.” “Then we’d all be falling asleep like old Lig,” the first voice said before Seph heard the pounding of the lid going back into place. They all laughed heartily and then stepped over toward the tower. Seph didn’t move. If they discovered the flag had been switched out, they’d immediately send out a signal for everyone to start searching for whomever had done it, and while old Lig had the flag, she would certainly be discovered and held as the guilty party. There wasn’t anything she could do at the moment. Until the soldiers moved on