She would personally deliver the consequences, giving the rebels something to think about.
Only a terror they could see would make them fall in line.
The old fossils immediately began to whisper amongst themselves. A few wanted to speak up, but they didn't have the nerve.
But from the incessant buzzing, like the droning of flies, Lady Jie Lin could guess what they were thinking. Destroying a village outright was too great a sacrifice for Longship Castle at present. It would be better, they thought, to divide it among them and let them lead it to prosperity.
'They have one foot in the grave, yet they're still so insatiably greedy.'
Lady Jie Lin wondered if it had been a mistake to summon this bunch of old relics. She glanced toward Leech, who sat at a corner of the long table.
Ordinarily, Leech would have no place at a Longship Castle council meeting. But he had 100 Soldiers inside the castle walls, and the Baroness, overriding all objections, had personally asked him to stay.
