"If Your Majesty is without doubts, then I shall follow you to the very end," Lord Idris said, kneeling before him. "If you are so full of certainty, then I do not believe there to be any foe in the Kingdom capable of overcoming you."
"I'll kneel as well, out of respect for what you have just done," General Blackthorn said, hefting himself down beside him. "You'll need a strong ally, King Patrick – and I can guarantee you that I am that. The First King took the Stormfront by conquest, and he did it with House Black to support him. There's the echoes of him in you."
