“I cannot kill you, yet you must die.”
As King Jordan Korg regretfully aged, both physically and emotionally, he always knew the time would come when he’d be forced to accept his death whatever the circumstances, and decide whether or not Sea Rovers could survive without him.
Queen Ella is queen no more. She knows this, she has no escape plan; she walks into the town square knowing her time has come to an end. There is freedom to know you will never be free again. The Queen Ella looks amused by her invader. “How strange, Earl Ingstad, that you should play the usurper. One woman against another.” Queen Ella knows Earl Ingstad values herself as a powerful woman in this world of powerful men — knows that, at this moment of triumph, it will darken Earl Ingstad’s soul just a little bit, the i
