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"Calm down, Charles. Think. Think about what you're going to do next, instead of standing here like some hysterical person screaming at the wind."
After venting his fury in a fit of curses, Charles forced himself to breathe slowly and evenly until reason clawed its way back through the haze of anger. Then, leaning against the desk, he began to think.
"Sarybin… what in the hell do those bastards think they're doing declaring war on us? We're neighbors, sure, but we've never had the kind of irreconcilable conflict Selwyn did. There hasn't been any struggle over resources vital for survival. This declaration makes no damned sense."
Thoughts flickered through his mind as he sifted through every memory and record concerning the Sarybin Empire, searching for anything that could explain its sudden madness.
The Sarybin Empire shared borders with both Selwyn and Aleisterre. But with Selwyn, the connection was little more than a mountain path so narrow and treacherous that trade or travel was virtually nonexistent....



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