"How exactly are you going to track down these insidious demons who vanish like mist and pillage as they please? How are you going to make my barony safe again?"
Loman had only just taken his seat at the high table when Baron Hanrahan's provocative words rang out across the hall, stilling tongues and drawing all eyes in the great hall to the young lord, along with the Inquisitor and Templar who accompanied him.
It was a topic that Loman was prepared to discuss, one that he'd spent several days considering and debating with Sir Tommin and Diarmuid during the extended trip from Lothian City to Hanrahan Town.
But it was also a plan that required Baron Hanrahan's support, and Loman realized too late that by pressing the baron over the matter of the common folk in the outer quarters of the town and the baron's tithes, he'd squandered his opportunity to take advantage of the baron's attempts to curry favor.
