About this story
You drink for your own thirst, and the water shows you home: smoke on the tower, riders in the corn. You empty the pen of levied boys, break the Red Company at the battle of the corn, and a rusty nameless knight unmasks as Redhead, Utterbol's kennel-master. Seventy-five chapters carry you from the wildwood to the crowning stone.
How it opens
King Peter granted his three elder sons leave to seek fortune beyond peaceful Upmeads.
King PeterRalph, one son must remain where crown, field, and family already know his duty.
King PeterWatch your brothers take three roads, Ralph, and learn that leaving is not the only courage.
Dame KatherineDawn finds you armed, mounted, and notably without your father's permission.
Dame Katherine met you beyond the first boundary as though she had expected the theft.
Dame KatherineA runaway prince needs counsel more urgently than he needs a blessing.