Little John received the invitation and came to the party as well.
But no one spoke to him, and many people saw him and pretended not to, including some of his relatives.
Little John had thought that Roland had invited him here for no other reason than to humiliate him.
He didn't care. He could endure it.
Unexpectedly, Roland received him normally, without being overbearing or saying anything shady.
This made John Junior uncomfortable, so he stayed alone in a shadowed corner, watching his mother and sister talk with Queen Andonara and other noblewomen.
He snorted, thinking that his mother and sister were traitors and that the two of them were so close to the enemy when their father had been dead only a little over a year.
They had no conscience.
However, he forgot that his mother and sister had watched them, father and son, give up, even to the point of sacrificing their lives.
