Chapter 25: Deputy Commander, Dylan Weedy

"I, Dylan Weedy, simply chose not to fight over fame and fortune. Otherwise, how could the title of the capital's foremost scholar have gone to that sanctimonious hypocrite, Silas Zerba?" Dylan smiled at Jasper Gosden. "Jasper, can these five lyric poems of mine match Silas Zerba's?" "Match them? Yours would wipe the floor with his!" Jasper did not flatter him. He answered with grave sincerity, "My Lord's five works will absolutely rank among the top ten lyric poems in the history of the Sublime...