Part 1: Corvin Teaches His Former Captain the Asking Method While Three Lords’ Scouts Watch**Day 25, Hour 5. The ridge had new watchers.Not Corvin’s spears. Three lords’ scouts. Red spear, iron crown, black wolf not Corvin’s. Glass turned toward the gate.Corvin didn’t hide. He knelt at the spare anchor with his former captain.“Lesson one,” Corvin said. Voice still rough from 60 years of commands. “Ask first.”The captain stared at the chalk like it was a blade. “My lord… we command stone. That’s how borders stay.”“Command broke 12 borders last winter,” Corvin said. “I watched it. I did it.”He guided the captain’s hand to the stone. Not force. Just guidance. “Say it with me,” Corvin said. “Hold… if you remember mending.”The captain’s voice cracked. Old order voice, used to roaring. “Hold… if you remember mending.”The anchor glowed faint green. Scars lit up, then settled.On the ridge, the scouts wrote in their ledgers. Not numbers of spears. Words they didn’t understand.Cor
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