
At Summerley, tenants watched twenty-five selected archers practise before Sir Eustace returned to his French estate. Five years is long service, Guy, but every bowman chose it knowing Villeroy may need more than a hunting shaft. You step into this one-chapter preview with Sir Eustace de Villeroy at the center, where choices turn on the people, promises, and pressure already in the room. France received the party with its hardest question still open. The chapter closes on a continuation question rather than resolving the novel's larger arc.
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