For the first time in the history of Lothian March, and perhaps the first time in the history of the Kingdom of Gaal, the aristocrats who ruled one of its territories sat across the table from a man representing their enemy and listened to him describing the impact of their actions.
It was a sobering moment that none of them had been prepared for.
Ollie was a witch. A heretic in the eyes of the Church. A man who lived among the people that humanity had called 'demons' for longer than anyone in the tent had been alive.
But he was also one of them. He was a man who grew up in Lothian March. He'd brought food to Sir Gavin when he was injured in a tournament. His manners, though old-fashioned, were recognizable and steeped in the traditions of the knights of Gaal.
And to Loghlan and Mairwen, he was the man who had brought their son home.
