circular staircase

When he had finally ridden to Fraldarius to take his place as Duke, he had not expected this, of all things, to be unbearable. The work, yes, and the half-starving people sick of war. The rationing and the cold and the new king’s letters signed, Your friend. Felix’s swords abandoned without purpose.Not this: going through his father’s things and finding not secrets, but signposts of a life. Candy in the pockets of a woolen coat. A razor by the washbasin. A smoking joint confiscated and abandoned in a drawer.___Felix and Sylvain talk about the dead.