In the following week, Secretary Sola was constantly in a state of combined joy and pain.
The joy came from the liberation of the City of Bologna—the several company commanders inclined towards the Northern Doctrine had convinced their superiors and ultimately opened the city gates.
The nobles still wanted to resist desperately, but they were either captured by their subordinates or shot at close range, and only a very few powerful individuals managed to escape.
The pain was because after the journalists published Durin's speech in full, now many young Elves and Half-bloods in the Western Lands, idle and restless, were heading to Farol.
Whether they were Sun Elves, Moon Elves, or Grassland Elves, or even Half-bloods, they all claimed to be inspired by Durin's address and wished to serve the truth named liberation.
They had joined the Northern Doctrine, which should have been a cause for happiness.
