"Your Highness, with your wisdom, you surely know what I'm implying. The Ryan Kingdom is the Land of Knights, and the Campbell Duchy is its exemplar. Rather than follow an ambitious man, we prefer to rally around a truly noble knight. You and I both know who is the real knight."
Though the words weren't explicit, they almost broke through the windowpane obscuring the truth.
By rights, Jelock should have erupted in fury to rebuke him and demand he forget what was said today for the sake of the duchy's stability.
If it were Erin, she would certainly do that.
But Jelock was not Erin; his dissatisfaction with his brother was not just due to ideological conflicts but also compounded by the absence of recognition from the Light of Praise.
No matter the father's intention in passing the sword to Erin, whether it was a well-considered decision or a spur-of-the-moment insight during his last moments, it undoubtedly weakened Edward's orthodoxy.
