The baronial court travels to Windsor, where lady Love must ask English king Edward II, who lets her wait only to defer the matter to his ambitious confident Piers Gaveston, about the succession in Ventrishire, and counters the scheduled division in three by announcing pregnancy of an heir. While Milus plots for power with baron Pryce, the torture of captured rebels to find leader Wolf is left to a professional under instructions of the ruthless archdeacon (virtual bishop).
—KGF Vissers