The men around him burst into laughter at the crude joke that one of them had made at the Midnight King. It turns out that his father has lost all of the fear he had earlier commanded with the unfortunate war he had led. The tales of the war has been spun such that everything his father had done from the beginning of the battle seems like a gaudy joke. The Amazons' powers are more and more exaggerated the more he hears the tales retold. His father's name is now tossed around casually, his old age and poor judgement emphasized. His father now seems like a sorry old man hungry for the glory of his younger days, nothing like the indomitable man that had inspired so much fear in him and everyone around him. Lazarre is oddly fine with the development.
As for his original plan, he had been righ
