The Sun of Oldtown

There are roads a man chooses, and roads chosen for him. The wise spend a lifetime convincing themselves the two are one and the same.

Lady Alysanne of House Ashford had never questioned the road laid before her. She was the youngest of five children, born too late to inherit lands, too low in the order of birth to shape her own future. Like every noble daughter before her, she would leave her father's hall beneath banners and blessings, to belong to another.

Such was the way of the world.

Yet kingdoms have turned upon smaller things than a young woman's marriage. A forgotten glance. A few careless words. A lord who lingered a moment longer than he ought. Men speak often of battles and crowns, but seldom of the quiet choices that set them in motion.

Had anyone asked on the morning she departed Ashford where the road would end, no answer would have matched the truth.

Not even hers.

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