1)
“Are you, or are you not, Wolf, sworn—BLOODsworn, with spells cast upon your blood that employ your blood as part of them, so breaking them breaks YOU, fatally—to serve me? THE Rightful King of Neverune?”
“I am, Your Majesty.”#epicfantasy— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 15, 2019
2)
“And although for years you’ve, ah, creatively reinterpreted this LOYAL service to be whatever you want to do at this or that moment, you ARE bound to obey ALL direct orders from me, are you not?”
“Not, Sire.” 3)
“ANOTHER little reinterpretation, Wolf? OR trap or weasel-hole, if you prefer? I have passed beginning to find this tendency on your part MORE than tiresome.”
“It is much like being courtier to a king, then. However, if we…#epicfantasy— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 15, 2019
4)
…both smile false smiles at each other and persevere, something called ‘civilized society’ may break out. And even waver along for some time. The way life in the Castle has for YEARS.” 5)
“Ah, yes. The smiles my uncle the Old Duke once called ‘the drying of the teeth.’”
“Indeed. I understand, Elvar, that folk even manage it in some other courts, and realms.”#epicfantasy— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 15, 2019
