A cunning smile crept over Walsh's face. "You're welcome to try, of course. However, I've heard that your king

A cunning smile crept over Walsh's face. "You're welcome to try, of course. However, I've heard that your kingdom is suffering some hard times. Your people consider you inferior to King Irovetti. Your subjects don't obey you, and your soldiers desert your army. Why, we even have a sizable community of your former subjects here in Pitax. If things keep progressing along these lines, your kingdom will soon enough become part of Pitax on its own." He wasn't necessarily wrong. We could do little more than envy this villain's familiarity with our situation. We gritted our teeth and...