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Rekka No Ken 2: Chapter 1: A Lord’s Quest

Vol. 1: The Tactician and the Heiress: Chapter 10: The Distant Plains      Chapter 2: Prize or Artefact?

Rekka no Ken: Vol. 2: The Tactician and the Jewel

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Chapter 1: A Lord’s Quest

Ceniro shifted nervously in the cushioned wooden seat. He was waiting with six or seven other men and one woman in the antechamber to a lord’s study, waiting to have an interview with the lord to see if he could gain another temporary position as a tactician. The other people waiting were all much older than he was by a matter of decades, and all were richly dressed. And the place itself – it was furnished with dark, rich furniture in this wing, and footmen had escorted each applicant to the chamber and escorted those who had completed their interview to another room – or to the door, if they didn’t meet the lord’s preferences. The young tactician felt completely out of place and wished he could shrink to invisibility. Continue reading