![]() There were many ways to get her feelings across without needing to dip into impropriety. Instead she discreetly gestured for the servant to take away his soup when he wasn’t looking. Uncle Klaus might have been a prince, but whenever speaking of war he reverted to a soldier’s vocabulary. The First Prince did not wrinkle her nose in distaste, though she dearly wished that etiquette would allow her to properly express her disgust at the crudity just displayed. Half their boys will shit their breeches and run the moment he charges.” There’s the Black Knight to take into consideration, too. “Most of her men are peasant levies and those are likely to scatter if they get bloodied bad enough. “She’s in a tricky position,” Klaus finally replied. The grey-haired man broke off a chunk of bread and dipped it into that foul onion broth he was inexplicably fond of, scattering a few crumbs over his previously pristine doublet. Her uncle’s habit of slipping silver to the hired help was as much a dig at the local nobility as it was genuine charity. Servants were usually paid less in the central part of Procer than they were in the Lycaonese principalities, true, but they were hardly beggars. Cordelia refrained from rolling her eyes, as it would have been a breach of decorum. The Prince of Hannoven thanked the servant handing him a bowl of soup and slipped him a few coins. The Empire has only sent two legions to subdue her: eight thousand soldiers, at most.” “She has nigh twenty thousand soldiers now, including a core of dwarven infantry. ![]() Vale was in rebel hands and the Countess Marchford had been gathering troops from all over the south of Callow beneath the walls, but her own informants in Liesse’s staff had sent word that she was likely to evacuate the city rather than give battle to the Sixth and Ninth Legions. The insurrectionists had avoided any majors defeat so far and managed to strike a few blows at the Legions, but it could not be said they were winning. Regardless of her uncle’s assurances, Cordelia was not enthused by the way the Liesse Rebellion was currently proceeding. “It’s not as bad as it looks,” Klaus spoke as he contemplated the map. “Two Hundred Heroic Axioms”, unknown author It will both improve your life expectancy and save you a great many jokes about overcompensation.” “Thirty-one: use a sword fit for your height and built, not the largest chunk of metal you can find. ![]()
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