
You are Edmund Twyford, a cottager's son raised among Baron Fitz-Owen's sons and never let forget it. Your skill at the butts draws the notice of Sir Philip Harclay, a knight back from thirty years abroad who studies your face like a man meeting a dead friend, then offers to adopt you as his own son. You choose loyalty to the baron who took you in instead — and leave behind a warning that excellence earns enemies, and an old servant certain your birth deserves a higher station than anyone admits.
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