Secrets (Part 2)

'What those blockheads fail to understand is that I'm not leaving Verhen last out of mercy but as a precaution. He's my contingency plan and the only way I have to fulfill Jormun's dying wish.' Just thinking that name brought tears to her eyes.

"Do you feel well enough to talk?" Thrud asked and Phloria nodded. "Then tell me everything I should know in order to win the War of the Griffons. Start from the most important secrets you know."

"As you command, my Queen." Phloria fell onto her right knee, appreciating the soft fabric of her new uniform that fit her like a glove. "Back when Magus Verhen was four years old, he found a stone in the Trawn woods-"

"That's what you consider a secret worthy of winning a war?" Thrud cut her short in disbelief, finding the anecdote as boring as it was stupid. "Hystar, is the array working properly?"