Argidir's expression was dark as he looked from the unfinished letter in his hands to his old friend and Vassal. It wasn't that he didn't understand what Lady Ashlynn seemed to be doing in Lothian March.
Thanks to his cousin, Brighde, Argidir knew better than most how corrupt and lawless the frontier of Lothian had become. Much like Brighde, a well-educated lady from the duchies would naturally recoil at what she found there, and Ashlynn had even more reason to turn against the corrupt lords and priests of the frontier than most others would.
But there were limits to her authority, and there were repercussions to her decisions that she clearly hadn't considered. It was a problem faced by many young lords who hadn't learned to temper their idealism with pragmatism.
