It's never too late to ring in the bells of war is it? The threat of war in the east is eliminated after a successful, but costly embassy across inhospitable terrain. But just as Casimir FitzDuncan begins to contemplate a less martial existence, Fenwick intrudes, with an urgent assignment from the king. There are rumors that Aquileia's ages-old enemy, the Rhetian Empire, is beating the drums of war. To find out, the two must...