"Allow me to speak for myself, Sir Kesten." The knight who helped fend off the attack steps forward and makes

"Allow me to speak for myself, Sir Kesten." The knight who helped fend off the attack steps forward and makes a curt, military bow. "Greetings, Your Highness, I humbly request you hear me out. I come from a duchy you probably haven't heard of, though it's only a day's journey from here. Many ages ago it was destroyed by the fey Nyrissa, and turned into a grain of dust for the sorceress' cursed cup."