Hogan sat alone within the palace gardens, brooding and thoughtful, the meeting of the brotherhood had left him feeling like there was a part of the picture he wasn't seeing clearly and such uncertainty was particularly difficult for the king to manage, he gazed in front of him to look at the wild lilies that had been planted alongside other flowers, they didn't grow this far north under normal circumstances and special conditions had been prepared to allow their growth.
Aldrich had been a most honorable foe and had sent back the dead bodies of his sons with these flowers on them from the battlefield, Hogan's heart had bled in sorrow at the sight of his sons transformed into mangled corpses at the hands of the mindless beasts, he had instructed the royal gardener to see to it that the flo
