Dale - Count Scar @page { margin-bottom: 5.000000pt; margin-top: 5.000000pt; } C DALE BRITTAIN C DALE BRITTAIN ROBERT A, BOUCHARD ROBERT A, BOUCHARD COUNT SCAR COUNT SCAR Chapter One ~ Caloron Chapter One ~ Caloron 1 1 Snow had fallen steadily all day, muffling the sounds of hooves. As we sat around a blazing hearth, celebrating New Years, we did not even realize anyone had arrived until the guards brought them into the hall: the messengers come to tell me I was going to be count. Everything was as abruptly transformed as if the wintry night had been ripped away to reveal the summer sun. A few minutes ago I had been staring unseeing into my wine glass, thinking that the purposeless and fruitless year just over was about to be replaced by another equally purposeless, but now in an instant possibilities and opportunities waited on every hand. I was too startled at first to show any emotion at all. My nephews were the most excited. "A count! With your own county! Can we come visit you, Uncle?
