"What does it take to build a road of flagstones between villages, Liam?" his father had asked him one night over dinner when Liam had complained about the muck and the mud he had to walk through when his father brought him to inspect a village after a sudden summer storm. "And what worth does it have to the barony?"
It was the first summer that Liam was spending back in Dunn after staying in Keating for most of the past year, and his father had wasted no time in involving his recently returned son in the affairs of the barony, testing what he had learned in his first year at the academy.
