Orren looked ominous and indestructible and even though Boyce looked like a formidable opponent, his friends were not certain that he would be victorious.
"I want Manguino here before me, immediately!" Boyce demanded and then took a few steps towards him.
"As far as you should be concerned, I am the ArchBishop!" Cardinal
Orren told him calmly.
Boyce slowly came closer to Orren and he prodded him with his cross bow, and with a strangely provoking little smile on his face.
"Am I to take Manguino's cowardice as the surrender of Halls and
Pomperaque, to me?"
Orren was somewhat disturbed by what Boyce said to him and he pushed
Boyce's bow away from himself.
"You are out of your mind." said Orren. "Halls will never surrender to you, or to anyone else. So long as I live, so long as anyone within those walls lives, Halls will not surrender!"
Boyce glared right into Orren's eyes and spoke to him as if he was a little boy.
Orren was annoyed by it all but it helped to build his hostility towards his young opponent.
"I like watching grown men like you and Manguino throwing little tantrums of temper. What is interesting is that these tantrums affect the entire state; where, to relieve your own tension, you have innocent men, women and children murdered."