"I've decided that the reason condemned army prisoners are punished quickly is because they're already half-dead from receiving their reprimands."

Learning the customs of a new place can be hard. Particularly when your guide goes astray.

Invited to visit a friend's home, Adrian soon learns that his lack of knowledge of Emorian ways can cause trouble.

When he receives the opportunity to revisit his homeland, though, it seems he has nothing to worry about. He knows his native people, after all.

But he does not, perhaps, know everything he needs to know about his adopted homeland.

This novella (short novel) of a young man's coming of age is the fourth story of the Law Links volume in The Three Lands, a fantasy series on friendship, romance, and betrayal in times of war and peace.

The Three Lands is part of Chronicles of the Great Peninsula, a cycle of mythic historical fantasy series about a battle between cultures. Chronicles of the Great Peninsula is set at a time when a centuries-old civilization is in danger of being destroyed. The cycle is inspired by conflicts between cultures during the Arthurian Era.