Ailene quickly helped Thorburn and Stuart set up his courtyard to the training standards of the one Frang and Bjarkë set up at Lady Luck and began working with them to quickly train up the men on the new training order. When it was ready, Thorburn asked her to take charge, explain the new training.

"I want you to look where you're going to be training now," Ailene explained. "Don't walk around yet. Just look for a moment. Now, Grant, tell me what you see."

"There's a bunch of new stuff, walls and fences and the like."

"Does it seem more where you'd be likely to fight rather than a...