"'You asked whether you could do anything for me; now comes the moment when I must take up your offer.'"

Even the gods cannot foresee all consequences of a kept promise.

When Adrian must decide whether to keep a promise, he knows that he might be tricked into endangering the life of a friend.

He does not yet know that his friend's life is not all that lies at stake. Before Adrian looms a choice that will determine the course of two nations.

This novelette (miniature novel) of a young man's coming of age is the sixth and final 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.