![]() ![]() You have the money, and the training, and the centuries of authority.” The greater questions-justice, law, and the rights and obligations of power-those seem to be the domain of you nobles. “I concern myself with what is mine, and I try to help my neighbors. “Then how do we address the wrongs?” I asked, and was ashamed at the quiver in my voice. ![]() For had I not taken these people’s mare without a thought to the consequences? Just so could I envision an army trampling Ara’s garden, their minds filled with thoughts of victory, their hearts certain they were in the right. “As he says, we do not speak for everyone.”īut the message was clear enough. The woman leaned forward and patted my hand. ![]() I do see it.” I looked up and saw them both watching me anxiously. Who had died while trying to rescue me? Those people would never see the sun set again. “And mayhap the day will come when war is necessary, but we want to put that day off as long as we can for when it does come, it will not be so lightly recovered from. “Then we will manage somehow.” The man shook his head. “And if he does raise the taxes again? I know he has four times in the last ten years.” I thought of my entire life, devoted to the future, in which I would fight for the freedom of just such people as these. These words, so quietly spoken, astounded me. We could have a better king, but not at the cost of our towns and farms being laid waste by contending armies.” No matter who holds a port, or a point, it is our lands, and houses, that get burned, our food taken for supplies, our youths killed. Too many of us remember what life was like on the coast during the Pirate Wars. “Perhaps it is true.” The mother gave me a serious look. The King intends to break it-we have proof of that. “I mean, about our going to war for the Covenant. Rumor also has it you and your brother said you were going to war for the betterment of Remalna.” “Rumor has it your war is intended to protect the Covenant, but the King insists it was you who was going to break it. ![]()
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