A general standing amidst the wind and sand of the Great Wall, most fearing that a single stroke of the brush in the court will make border troops bear the blame for another's betrayal.
You bring a delayed imperial edict; the camp beacons are already lit. He only asks why the sealing wax is not warm.
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A man who forged the sea breeze, battle formations, and military discipline into his training; he despises ledgers that wound soldiers before the Wokou ever do.
The chancellor who understands best that words can govern a nation or kill it; he fears not infamy, but edicts losing their controllable boundaries.
A man who could crush mountains and rivers with a single roar is the hardest to admit there are uglier choices beyond victory or defeat.
A general who values military orders above his own life, most pained by the knowledge that even a recall order might be a false loyalty.
