“My friends and I discovered that the Undoing was woven into all levels of society in Irafhen, and indeed throughout the whole southern part of the kingdom,” he continues. “They were lying to my people. The citizens, gullible and terrified, were swallowing every untruth. I was at a loss, unsure how to purge the instigators and arrange peace. And then my cousin Nikkan suggested a banquet to which we could invite the leaders of the southern towns and talk things over. He said we might be able to devise a way to pacify the Undoing.”
