
You are Thomas Wingfield, nineteen, slipping away from your medical studies to meet Lily Bozard when a stranger on the road asks the way to Yarmouth, and your fluent Castilian reply makes him look twice at your face. He draws his sword the moment you give your name. You leave him bound to a tree and go to Lily anyway — he does not stay bound. Your mother lies murdered in the brake, and less than a fortnight later you are at sea, sailing for Spain to find her killer.
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