The rage on the winner's side at the cost, the death and destruction that had been mainly visited on just one kingdom, wasn't to be denied. They made ... peace so onerous that in little more than twenty years the war started again."Two generations of the youth of all those lands were consumed in those wars. Poets, singers, great men and tiny men. Heroes and cowards... they all died. And the High King knows of this and still wants to create static defensive works to stop the enemy south of. You didn’t have to wait for the results, but if you elected to, your test was graded first. They waited, along with two others who wanted to know how they did right away. The results of that were anticlimactic too. A mousy looking man came out, called out a name and handed whoever answered a piece of paper. One of the other’s name was called first, and as he looked at the paper he cursed, wadded it up, tossed it in a corner, and stomped out. Waggoner was called before Wilson. The paper told. An acute sensation that he was in the same room with a pack of wolves took over.Xavier sighed, running a hand through his hair. Every lord in Drena was expected to at least try to become the most important master in the city. There was a fragile balance, thin as a thread, seemingly kept by an invisible hand that was dictating the fights for power. For years, he’d been the one in charge; but right now, as he suddenly felt alone in the enormous room filled with men dressed all in black, he had an. Some went straight to sit with particular girls, and some sat alone or in little groups. Nobody went out of the room while she was watching, and she was half afraid and half hoping that nobody would want her as a hostess on their table.Then a group of four men came in and settled at a table with their drinks. Jacqui felt quite flattered when she was almost immediately called over to the table where the four young, well-built men were sitting."Hi, I'm Nathan, these are Marcus, Leo and Quentin,".