Chapter 48
The strategy room afforded to the Guard General of Prince Ulanain’s newly created guard corps had only recently been converted from a meeting room in the royal palace’s west tower. On rare occasion, when the king felt benevolent enough to host a small gathering outside the visits he paid to the court or allowed his Maiden of Liveries to throw a small get together with her yearly stipend, he would select a handful of close confidants to gather in the plush west tower that until prior had been more of a library than a guard station. Six tables stood pushed together in the center of the room ringed by mismatched chairs and a single long bench that had before sat against the wall beneath a window--so that couples might enjoy the scenic view the tower had over the city while they he
