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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 3366475" data-attributes="member: 3448">Dame Brionna spent some time scrutinizing the list.  “Your grace, who was your military strategy instructor?  I cannot find one on this list.”Alistair thought about it. “I never had any formal instruction about strategy.  I learned some from conversations with my father and listening to him discussing strategy with his advisors, although I must admit some went over my head because of my lack of grounding in the basics.”“Impossible.  Without wanting to question your grace’s memory, a lord of your rank could not possibly have been left completely uneducated in strategy.  If you had had a tutor who had done poorly, or remembered avoiding your lessons, perhaps.”“So that’s one of the missing two,” said Kit, as Alistair nodded in agreement.  “Now, who could the last one be?”“There are no other obvious holes among his grace’s teachers,” said Dame Brionna.  “The other missing name is low on the list, near your family members.  Perhaps it was one of your grace’s relatives?”Alistair thought for a moment.  “Dame Brionna, what do you know of my mother?”“She was of noble birth but not married to your father.  And she died when you were young.”“Yes, but what family was she from?  Was she high in the nobility, where only my father’s pre-existing marriage prevented them from wedding, or a younger daughter of a manor lord?  How did she die?  Violence, disease, a surprise misfortune?  And when I was an infant, or when I was six, or just before I left Canberry?”“I… I don’t know, your grace.”“But you can remember your mother, right, Alistair?” asked Kit anxiously.  “You have your childhood memories of her, right?”“I know I had a mother.  But when I think about her, that’s all I can recall.  There was mother.  But no happy memories of her, or sad or bitter ones for that matter.  And no memories of the details about her that surely were carefully taught to me-- who her family was, how and when she died.”</blockquote>

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