Chapter 445: A Strategy Against Sabotage
Lyria's POV
"No soul has ever endeavoured to understand what these people endure. That is why I say they are misunderstood. Their pleas, their cries, the Crown has never once attended to them. And yet taxes are still collected from them, as though they were any other town under royal protection. Though I must admit that, rather than a town, it is more akin to a village."
Lucian frowned, his gaze fixed upon him.
"How do you come to know so much of this place? Even I know nothing of it."
"There was a time when I had someone conduct research upon it, though it was long ago," Duke Valenridge said. "I must confess this is more my own opinion, drawn from what that research revealed. I have never visited the place, and I may well be mistaken."
I considered his words with care.
