He Lost His Family in the Snow, He Returned to Save Them novel · Chapter 19 of 24
Chapter 19: The Boundary Stone
They rode through the night with the King's seal and forty guards, and reached the pass at first light.
Below them in the white valley, twenty thousand southern spears stood drawn up in ranks.
Across the river, on the northern bank, the grandwolf banners were already rising.
"They've seen each other," Seo-jun said. "One arrow and it's done."
"Then we'd better be loud."
The southern marshal met them at the edge of the camp, a squat gray man in black lacquer armor.
"Prince Seo-jun. Prince Min-jun." His eyes went to the northern banners, and hardened. "You come to surrender your husband's house to the throne?"
"We come with your King's word," Seo-jun said. "Read it."
The marshal broke the seal and read it twice.
His jaw worked.
"The prince Jae-won is stripped. His letter to me is void." He lowered the page. "And I'm to believe the northerners did not break the bridge on the Haeneul road and kill the Queen's men?"
"Nine men died on that bridge," Min-jun said. "All nine wore northern cloaks."
"Yes."
"None of them were ours." Min-jun took a ring from his sleeve and put it into the marshal's palm. "Look at the underside."
The marshal turned it to the light.
A thin silver wash had worn from the rim, and the metal beneath was pale red.
"Copper."
"A grandwolf's ring is solid silver, cast in a single piece, and weighs as much as a plum. My father has worn his for fifty years." Min-jun held out the northern seal ring from his own hand. "Weigh them."
The marshal weighed them, one in each palm.
A silence settled over the nearest ranks.
"Then someone made false rings and false cloaks to bring us to this field."
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