The queen sighed, seeming to reconcile herself to a difficult course. “Asdralad can do little in the coming war, at least for the present. We lack the military power. Our strength has never been in arms, but we need to remedy this. In the short term, I have decided to send Sequara one last time to King Balch in Adanon and King Malruan in Caergilion. She will attempt to persuade them to see reason. If she is to replace me someday, there will be no greater testing ground than this. I only wish it had not come in her time.”
