"The things I do for you," says the live man to the dead one.
They are always talking to each other, these two. They have so much to say. We begin with them in the dirty sand along the fjord. Michael the Conflicted describes Paris to Jordan Korg. The River Seine. The city is on an island. The walls and towers, the bridge. "This city is impregnable," says the monk-turned-slave-turned-Sea Rover. King Jordan Korg smiles. No wall has been built that won't crumble someday.
Michael: This is the river sciene, now I don’t know where it starts, but it arrives here and it widens. It widens around this island. And on this island…is Paris. It has these walls all around, they are high and thick, and towers everywhere.
Jordan Korg: But how do they get into the city?
Michael: there was a bridge, at l
