Chapter 4: EuniceFiletus stood by the table in the duke’s study and watched as the duke signed his name on all the seventeen letters to the seventeen noble families in the duchy. Filetus did not know the content of the letter but he had heard from his good friend, Marus, who had been the writer of all the letters that the letter had something to do about a pageantry coming up soon. Marus was the one who wrote all the duke’s letters so his information could be trusted. Rumor had it that Marus had been in the palace before, writing for the king himself before he committed unknown crime and was sent away. It so happened that it was during that time that Duke William himself needed a writer in the castle and he was also visiting the king at that time. He begged for permission to bring Marus to
