http://robin.thornvalley.com/node/167 Comments for "Part 2: Regrets, Refuge and Retribution" en http://robin.thornvalley.com/node/167 <p> <p><b>Chapter Four</b></p> </p> <p> <p>The gravesites, side-by-side, were unmarked. No headstone. No monument. No<br /> marker. Nothing to indicate that there were bodies in coffins under the freshly<br /> turned soil. Jenner, in his twisted wisdom, had ordered King Nicodemus and Sir<br /> Jonathan Brisbee hastily buried in the most isolated &quot;potter's field&quot;<br /> in all Londontown. A field that had long ago been reserved for traitors, spies<br /> and other such threats to the Crown and its subjects.</p> </p> <p> <p>Even through his tears, Justin could see the irony in Jenner's choice. To<br /> the new King, Nicodemus was, in fact, a traitor. A traitor to Jenner's perverse<br /> ideals of greed, vanity and power for its own sake. Therefore, he deserved, in<br /> his adopted sibling's eyes at least, to be interred with others of the ilk. </p> </p> <p><a href="http://robin.thornvalley.com/node/167">read more</a></p> http://robin.thornvalley.com/node/167#comment Sun, 16 Jan 2005 20:39:05 -0700 Simon 167 at http://robin.thornvalley.com