Three children—Faron, Elara, and Aveline—sitting in places of honor, surrounded by uniformed officers, discussing things like supply lines, access points, artillery stock, and army sizes. Of course, Aveline had seemed, to her, like another adult, but now that Faron was the same age as the queen had been back then, she knew better. They’d all been too young to be there. They were still too young.
