The daughter of a duke--and a close friend of my brother and I. [That's what made it important to Ethlyn, although she had a great deal of respect for Edain's father.] Naturally, he crossed the border right away with only our own household knights to rescue her.

[That was how Leonster got involved. Of course she had to save her reckless brother, and with her husband being a close friend to Sigurd himself, he rode right alongside her.]

We're both healers, and we're both from worlds ravaged by war--wars started for reasons beyond just land or philosophy. And we were both deeply involved in it. I don't suppose you were a duke, or someone else whose duty it was to lead men into battle?