He grimaced and shook his head. "There was an attack, three months ago. Both courts were made to fight one another. I was at the other court. We were trying to steal a weapon from them. Only, they came here to do the same. In the end, both sides stole one another's weapons, so it seemed a bloody waste of time."

He was bitter for more reason than that, though. He'd been stranded in enemy territory and it had taken him a month on horseback to make it back.