Chapter 10
For the past three weeks, the King and a small group of companions spent seventh-day afternoons riding in the countryside with the Lady Rozlynn, her close friend Drianna, and occasionally a man named Darius from Rozlynn's village who was introduced to Lord Randolf as Rozlynn's bodyguard. Why a small village girl from Lake Estonan would need a bodyguard did not come up in conversation, but this woman was increasingly mysterious to the King.
"Lord Martin, good of you to come," Randolf greeted the King's spymaster. They were meeting in a small food stall selling soup and fresh bread, at a busy corner in the central market in Solenta.
"I came as soon as I received your message, Lord Randolf, but I'm afraid I have nothing interesting to report."
Randolf had asked Lord Martin to
