After a day's ride, the group sets up camp - slowly and inefficiently, due to the poor training - and Damen overhears Orlant, another of the Prince's Guard, speaking angrily with Aimeric about yet another altercation he has been in with the Regent's men. Damen, however, distrusts Laurent's intentions of them being alone together, and Laurent says that if Damen wishes to kill him, he could do so at any point - though it behooves both of them now to focus on the Regent's threat than each other.Īfter an entire night of planning out the routes of their journey to the border, Laurent eventually decides against a straight path south, instead skirting along the borders of Patras and Vask to reach the border. When Laurent's business with Govart has ended, he joins Damen, explaining that he needs Damen's help explaining the territory they are about to embark upon, since he is familiar with it. Afterwards, Damen reports to the castellan of the keep, who leads him to Laurent's bedchambers.
On Jord's orders, Damen is sent to find Govart and bring him back to Laurent, but finds him instead having sex with the stableboy of the keep. Meanwhile, Damen is still receiving medical care from Paschal, the Veretian physician, for his back wounds. Most of said responsibilities fall to Jord, one of the Prince's Guard who has come to respect Damen as a hard-working asset to the Prince. It becomes apparent to Damen that the soldiers are all mostly untrained and undisciplined, and that their lax attitude is not challenged by their captain, Govart - a known thug of the Regent - who does little more than bark orders and shirk off the rest of his responsibilities. Damen comes across a few of the Regent's men in a dispute with Aimeric, a Veretian soldier, who has taken offense from their insults of Prince Laurent. Though Chastillon is meant to hold a large host of the Regent's soldiers for Laurent's use, they prove to be lazy and antagonistic to the Prince's soldiers. Now a member of Laurent's campaign south, Damen arrives with the Prince's men at Chastillon, one of the many Veretian keeps between the capital and the border. But even as the fledgling trust between the two men deepens, their enemies are poised to deal them a final devastating blow. With the future of both their nations at stake, a single misstep could be fatal.ĭespite himself, Damen is increasingly drawn to the dangerous, charismatic Laurent. Leading a band of loyal men against desperate odds, Damen must fight together with Laurent to overcome machinations, ambushes and betrayals. With their countries on the brink of war, Damen and his master Prince Laurent exchange the intrigues of the palace for the sweeping might of the battlefield as they travel to the border to avert a lethal plot.
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