A boy is living with his father (who is violent) and then a female soldier comes to stay in their house for the evening; the father attacks her and she kills him. There is an attack on the village and the house burns down. As he is fleeing with his last coins, he meets a girl who tells him that he can get recompensed by the king. They travel together to go to the king.
I remember that the boy's mother is alive--he ran away to go and find his father, and then couldn't just leave him when he discovered he was violent / didn't know how to get back. He meets up with the girl soldier at some later point in the book too.
Let me know if you remember something like this! Thanks!
Looking for a kindle book I read over a year ago.
A boy is living with his father (who is violent) and then a female soldier comes to stay in their house for the evening; the father attacks her and she kills him. There is an attack on the village and the house burns down. As he is fleeing with his last coins, he meets a girl who tells him that he can get recompensed by the king. They travel together to go to the king.
I remember that the boy's mother is alive--he ran away to go and find his father, and then couldn't just leave him when he discovered he was violent / didn't know how to get back. He meets up with the girl soldier at some later point in the book too.
Let me know if you remember something like this! Thanks!