If my advisors hired you, and I believe that they did, you should know it’s because they want a war with Slödava.” “And you don’t?” “I don’t.” Elma knelt then, her knees on the bloodstained stone so she could look him in the eye. “I am the only one in the court of Frost who doesn’t thirst for war. I want the people of Rothen to be well-fed and to live their lives as they see fit. That’s all.”

