Chapter 8
ORGANISING A MEETING with Tamerane turned out to be a lot more difficult than Isandor had envisaged. Her family was one of the very old established noble families, as he could have guessed by her name. Those women usually didn’t need to be breeders, unless they felt compelled to do so out of duty for their country.
But historically, the royal family had always been more involved with the Knights than with the nobility, and Isandor’s youth spent in the Outer City did not help at all. He knew these nobles only as haughty, arrogant and self-absorbed. They considered themselves immune from the decisions made by the Knight Council, they disliked the massive law reform process that they were going through, they didn’t sit on the council because they thought themselves too good for th
