"Come, please."
Inside the Summer Palace of Falan, as Charles VIII announced the attack on Windmill Land, André and Valent sat drinking at a small table with a stout man amid the Shattered Stone Plain.
The stout man picked up an oak cup and poured André a large mug of malt mead.
André wasn't fond of the taste, so he added some autumn pear syrup and mountain pine nut wine.
As for Valent, he neither spoke nor drank, just leaned to the side, occasionally asking questions and taking notes.
Sitting across from André was not a person from the Shattered Stone Plain, but a Norn.
To be precise, he was a peace envoy sent by the Norn people.
The news of the Battle of Gray Robe Valley had already spread to the Shattered Stone Plain, and amid the shock, their second move was peace negotiations.
If they were to wait for the army of Hotam County to come, their whole bunch would be doomed here.
The envoy sent was none other than Duke Gloev of Bear Castle Territory.
