It was certainly gallows humor, considering she'd been knifed in the kidney, but he could appreciate it. If he was being honest he'd been more concerned about his father than his sister whom he'd never understood.
"Maybe knowing what it feels like to get one in the side will teach her a bit of humility," he said. "Probably not though. She's never going to understand soldiering."
That was what had created the revolt in the first place, right? People not being on the same terms with what a soldier's life meant. His father had been on the lines before but now thhat he was old he lived almost exclusively within the walls of his castle. Maybe he had become too far removed from the common man as Cavras had thought...Ithacles started in on hhis next tankard.