Trickster's Queen - Weebly

It was so useful when the people in charge helped her
plans along.
The Stormwings reminded her that she was not on
deck to sightsee. Aly turned her head to the left. Here a
fortress guarded the southern side of the harbor
entrance. Beyond it, on a short stone pier, stood the
posts called Examples. Each harbor had them, public
display areas where those who had vexed the
government were executed and left on display. In
Rajmuat, the capital of the Isles, the Examples were
reserved for the nobility. They were surrounded on land
by a stone wall broken by a single gate. Over the gate,
a banner flapped on the dawn breeze, a rearing batwinged
horse of metallic copper cloth, posed on a white
field with a copper border— the flag of the Rittevon
kings of the Copper Isles.
Guards streamed through the gate and onto the pier.
At the foot of one of the posts men were arguing,
waving their arms and pointing. They wore the redpainted
armor of the King's Watch, the force charged
with keeping the peace, enforcing the law, and