Finn Ashton--or now as he was known, Prince Finrael Ravenspar--watched his tutor, the most honorable Lord Gaelyn Camrys’ head nod as the warmth of the day caused him to doze. Or maybe it was the simplicity of the lesson that couldn’t hold the lord’s interest.

According to his father--not to mention Lord Camrys himself--the lord was a Fae scholar of renown. He had come to today’s lesson with exquisitely bound books that contained enlightened treatises on Fae dialects, the finer points of grammar and very definite ideas about diction.