Archbishop Theron Vayle's composure shattered on the morning they told him the Gate had been sealed.
Sir Willem delivered the news personally, standing outside the cell's iron bars with the report in his hand and an expression that combined grim satisfaction with something approaching pity. The guard captain had seen many men break over his forty-year career ...soldiers who crumbled under combat stress, nobles who dissolved when their schemes collapsed, criminals who wept when sentences were pronounced. But he had never seen someone break the way Theron broke.
