Boyce stopped for a moment, watching Orren's reaction to what he had said and saw that he was irritating him.
"You and my uncle put my mansion under siege and yet we left Halls alone. We could've destroyed Halls before this war even began!"
Orren interrupted Boyce's momentum by showing his hostile nature.
"You did have Halls under siege!" hollered Orren. "That friend of your, that Bestenese, Bartlett … he had come into Halls and had brutally murdered the ArchBishop's wife and son. That is why I must kill you. I have to avenge their deaths for him as I have avenged the death of my father, Cardinal Allen, by killing his murderer!"
He pointed down the road towards the Blue Mansion and the pole with
Lloyd's head on it.
"You prepare yourself to die, then!" announced Boyce. "I have to avenge deaths, as well. I must avenge the deaths of Brook and Dearborne and my friend, Lloyd!"
He threw his cross bow to the ground and drew his sabre from its scabbard.
"Senseless bloodshed is not the way to fight a war, Cardinal Orren.
Battle, like this, can be the only way!"
They circled around one another, their eyes locked together in an icy stare.
"I take a different view, young Scullion-Blue!" blurted Orren.