"It is understandable," Tolsey said. "Now that I am here once more, it seems so separate from the borderlands. I could not ever imagine war reaching this far. No doubt the people here feel the same. Why would they want to waste their taxes on something that does not directly affect them?"
"In a single fell swoop, the momentum becomes unstoppable," Oliver murmured. "It would only take the loss of a single Silver Kingdom, and the Stormfront would be no longer."
They were Volguard's words, not his. Only after years of study in strategy could he ascertain the truth in them. If a single one of their enemies was ever strong enough to push for a Silver King's throne, they would have all that they needed to put an end to centuries of history. They would have a throughline straight towards the Kingdom's heart.
