"When the indignation that has been ignited against your innocence reaches forth from your past to burn your future, how do you fend for yourself against the flames? Do you speak your defence or do you hold your peace and pray for the truth to show its face to your foes?
What of heart, when those that are your home land rise to stone you, despite the benefits you have earned to their favour?"
~
The Alleyways in the Town of Bournedusk,
The Kingdom of Hyll-Decanta,
Eventide,
Second Tuesday of the Second month,
Fiftieth Year of the Reign of King Adon Vericus IV
As Sir Jaycob Israel walked on, silently, down the unsettling and hostile shadows of the alley, almost nearing the opening of the lane, there was a sudden shift behind him and he felt the hair on his neck and hands rise.
