"The old king pardoned all your soldiers after Shrewsbury." She lifts her chin. "We have had more visits from the Douglas's men then either Henry's. 'Twas thy father's going that keeps us safest, though. We must send for him now, if he is pardoned. He must see thee living, Harry."

Harry shifts in his seat and stares very hard at his knees.

Lady Percy turns to Kate. "I told him to stay. I told him to send a younger general in his place. That his men did not reach the field, I do not know how that came to be. But the Earl is old. War is a young man's game."