“Leaving?”
“Yes, you and your maid will be sent to the garrison in the north protected by General Drago.”
“General Drago?”
“Yes. You’ve heard of him?”
“Perhaps. I am not sure.” Only today she’d heard his name mentioned by the beastly jailer in the dungeon, and not in the most complimentary way. But, in fact, most people in both her father’s realm as well as her uncle Draydon’s, knew of the great General Drago. He was renowned not only as a fierce fighter, but an opportunist and a brutal man. “I believe I have reason to fear him, uncle.”
“Not if you take pains to be gracious, do his bidding and not cross him.”
“Do his bidding?”
“I mean that in the strictest sense of honoring his household. You may be called on to take care of his domestic affair, his servants, that sort of thing, amo
