The king had bathed and dressed and ordered his chambers cleaned, but he was still too weak to be out. Instead of resting, however, he sat in the King’s Room high in Sanctuary Tower. Daniel signed decrees and issued levies to raise money for the war, but looked up to wave Markal into the room with a weary smile. Markal removed his shoes and took his place on a stone bench across from the dais.The King’s Room was to the Brotherhood what the Thorne Chamber was to the Order. Here, Daniel met in council with the Knights Temperate; here, he had sent men to search for the lost cities, and here he had sent knights to clear the eastern Wylde of bandits or battle stone giants in the mountains. King Daniel could never command the Brotherhood, just suggest. By the vows of Sanctuary, the Brotherhood served no man but their own conscience. Not the king; not Whelan.The room itself was spare to match the austere granite surface of Sanctuary Tower. This high up, at the narrow point, the room was the same width as the tower, about twenty feet in diameter.
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