"My father sends his regards and his regrets," Tulori said smoothly, as if the pressure Owain's gaze exerted rolled off the young lord like water off a duck.
"My mother and I only just arrived to join him last night, and he wanted to accompany her to pay respects to your late father," he said, continuing in the same polished tone that had been drilled into him through years of practice with some of the best teachers in Keating Duchy. "Mother brought several offerings for the pyre from the days when our fathers fought together in the last war," he added thoughtfully.
By tradition, a number of treasured items would be burned along with a lord's body. Over the years, Bors Lothian and Valeri Leufroy had exchanged countless tokens and mementos of their years together as comrades in arms.
