There is a story from before the walls of a woman who escaped her captors and took her four children with her. When they finally caught up to her, she looked them in the eye and sawed through the throat of the nearest child. It scared the captors so bad they left her alone with the other three. Seeing what she would do to her own made them too afraid to test what she would do to them. Do you see it? The emperor is the woman, Ashtown the children, and Wiley City the captors. Runners? We’re the saw.
