The Ramrodders‪ ‬

War and Peace had swapped corners that morning in the village of Fort Canibas. War was muttering at the end where two meeting-houses placidly faced each other across the street. Peace brooded over the ancient blockhouse, relic of the Bloodless War, and upon the structure that Thelismer Thornton had converted from officers' barracks to his own uses as a dwelling.