ALL THE COLORS OF MORNING
“The penalty for exceeding the time limit is the forfeiture of the game.”
– Howard Staunton
Jarrod staggered up the slope of High River’s courtyard, moderately drunk and completely turned around by two teleports in an afternoon. He hit the front door to find people waiting for him. No one even asked him how he’d gotten there, they just grabbed him by the arms halfway to the steps and ran him inside. Jarrod didn’t get all of it: manor, war, burned, and as he asked for the third time, he caught that they were talking about Regoth Ur.
As they crossed the anteroom, the crowd around him quieted, and parted, and in strode Princess Adielle with Karra beside her and a team of advisers behind them, heading right, dead-nuts on for Jarrod.
Adielle was clad in travesty,
