Always on GuardChapter 5
The conversation in the King's study began with much less formality. The Princess sat down in a high-backed chair and gestured for Jorgarn to take the one opposite to her. "My mother is a Longview woman," she began without preamble and before her father and her uncle had the chance to sit. "She is probably a distant relative of yours," the King intoned. But Sir Torbert shook his head in disagreement. "Longview's Lords are not always hereditary, King Landor," he said. "I believe...