While Altea and Fandor prepared to bleed for Mugna Vale, the rest of Legrand watched.
Some with interest. Some with contempt.
And some with the uneasy patience of people who had seen kingdoms make the same mistakes before.
There were five powers in Legrand.
A traveller once asked Geddo what Finias was guarding.
The old man looked toward the cold horizon for a long time.
Then he answered:
“Silence.”
The traveller laughed.
Geddo did not.
The Second Mugna Feud did not begin with a battle.
It began with a convoy that never arrived.
No declaration.
No challenge delivered at the gates.
Only burned wagons on an empty road, blackened wheels, and men who had been sent to speak of peace.
Years later, one soldier would claim he had seen something among the bodies at the roadside. A man wearing Fandorian colours. One of the men supposedly responsible for the attack. The problem was simple. He had been dead long before the convoy burned.





