Opening post by Lady Mya Stokeworth · #1
Right, I was reading a novel beside the war table when a chapter about a captain sending men into a flooded valley stopped me cold. I had a rally ready to send from my level 23 keep, and I left it sitting there until the march window passed. The story made a familiar order look like a real choice again, which was inconvenient.
Look, the detail that stayed with me was a single boot washing against a field gate. I grew up in Oakhaven, and rain has never seemed harmless to me since the harvest failed. In Iron Realms I usually call delay weakness, but that night I could not make myself spend fifteen thousand souls for the comfort of moving first.
Right, if you are waiting for me to name the novel, I will trade that answer for a useful price: read something that makes your decisions feel heavy before you rally. I have sworn to [ENVY] again, but I am keeping my hand off the button a little longer. What good is a banner if the person beneath it never thinks?