"We need not call him friend, only liege. He'll be friend enough when he comes knocking with a war in hand."

"What war?" Lady Percy sits, her brows drawn. "Surely not against Wales?"

"I think there's little profit in that," says Harry soothingly. "Besides, there's pardons sent out for Lord Mortimer as well."

At that, Lady Percy's eyebrows go up. "Indeed?"

Margaret Percy has opinions about Edmund Mortimer, much as she loves her daughter-in-law.