"Have you ever heard of a place where the custom is for friends not to touch each other?"
He knows that friendship is a fundamental custom of all mankind. Or so he thinks, until his closest friend discovers a mysterious journal.
This short story of friendship between young soldiers can be read on its own or as a side 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.