Midwinter Town: A Novella
“They can fight in a general war; but if they meet alone, if they are attacking as skirmishers, they will greet each other, and depart in friendship. Also if one of them falls into captivity, the other is bound to alleviate it, and in the worst case to ransom him; indeed, there have been some who shared their property with brothers. When it is a question of friends and acquaintances, or of finding someone, brothers go to brothers; and justice commands us to acknowledge that no people observe such oaths better than the Targars. The word is the main thing with them, and such a friend you can trust certainly.”
“But has, Geswer, many such brothers?”
“I have three powerful soldiers,” answered Heg