Truly, seldom have I seen a fairer maiden. Porn I and my knights adjudged him to be a mage, so I struck him down. I am sure it is true.” The baron couldn’t be sure, but he thought he saw the hand with which his fiance clutched at her belly pull in just a little tighter as she spoke. She wasn’t wrong about the merits of such an arrangement. Nor could she know just how overtly the matter had been discussed. Hyacin… “What’s more,” the man continued, “it might interest you to learn that my master has for some time now been quite keen on expanding the imperial navy. I must make another visit with the doctors soon.”
Sienna wanted nothing more than to flee from the hall, hell, from the entire Duchy. No sooner had Sienna’s lips parted to give voice to such fears, though, than Baron Hyacin made his move.
