"His sword went flying, nearly decapitating a bottom-ranked soldier who was leaning forward to watch better. The soldiers had been chatting lightly with one another throughout the fight; now silence fell like a corpse upon the crowd."
Soldiers have rules of their own. These soldiers have higher rules.
His fortunes now firmly tied to the border mountain patrol, Adrian holds two goals: to learn the ways of the patrol and to learn the laws of the Empire of Emor.
Only friendship can teach him what he needs to know. Or so he thinks, until disaster falls upon the patrol. . . .
This novella (short novel) of a young man's coming of age is the third story of the Law Links volume in The Three Lands, a fantasy series on friendship, romance, and betrayal in times of war and peace.
The Three Lands is part of Chronicles of the Great Peninsula, a cycle of mythic historical fantasy series about a battle between cultures. Chronicles of the Great Peninsula is set at a time when a centuries-old civilization is in danger of being destroyed. The cycle is inspired by conflicts between cultures during the Arthurian Era.