The Winter Sword

As a soldier, I would hang him. As a politician, knowing him my enemy, I need him near me.

For a young lord to become the leader of such a nation as this one, he has to become its oldest Lord.

Children care nothing for the glory of centuries past when they laugh and run free over the hills.

And I had a makings of a plan. It had no form nor details, and it would be, when finished, a perilous, hopeless plan, for it depended on a woman.

gods and luck are fickle friends at best.