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thank you so much. glad you like it! I will hopefully be contacting you soon to ask if you’d like to beta read it for me… =)

They are in a large tent/pavillion that has draped partitions separating the massive tent into different rooms. (they are mobile, just before the final battle)

and, the king is harsh, but it’s not the first time in the book you are introduced to him, and in the first meeting, he comes across as a wise, old grandpa (I hope….) but not just a grandpa, but someone who exudes strength and should be respect…it’s hard to explain……

at. first, he’s hard on Hanniumm because instead of reporting back to the King after the massacre, Hanniumm struck it out alone for years, trying to handle things on his own and not get the King involved in it. Then the king gets angry because in Hanniumm’s pessimism about surviving the battle, he is showing his hearts desire of wanting to die in the battle to rid himself of his guilt over the massacre. So the king is being harsh with his words to get through to the dense general Hanniumm that his thinking is all wrong. harsh love. =)

I don’t know if that makes sense, but I hope so. lol. Since it’s a fantasy world, I used the king as a metaphor for God in certain ways in this passage.

1) he asked “whom do you serve” three times, like Jesus did Peter

2) the King took the guilt upon himself for the massacre – just like God takes our sin upon himself

3) the king said he was a jealous king and would not share his responsibility with anyone – just as God is a jealous God who does not want to share 1st place in our hearts with anyone or anything.

4) you can’t redeem evil acts by doing good deeds, just like you can’t be saved by works

5) authority theme, similar to God’s authority

of course, the parallelism isn’t perfect (as no analogy is…) but as a sovereign ruler, I tried to show that the king said more than he actually said. =)