“So you’re going to back him? That child who inflicted the ignominy of a first ever retreat on a full call-up?” “That was the correct decision,” said Gray without hesitation. “We might still have won the battle if he’d advanced, but at a terrible price. Honour is everything, but I refuse to accept a definition of honour that places higher regard on tactical suicide than it does on the security of future generations.” “You may be right,” deferred Pryce. “But still: a boy, on the Stone Throne?”
