The boys will compete against one another to see who can most convincingly imitate Prince Jaron, the youngest son of King Eckbert who has been missing for the past four years. The mission will affect the fate of Carthya and all its citizens. When they stop the wagon to rest for the night, Conner tells the boys about the covert mission for which he is recruiting them. The group, along with two of Conner’s vigils, Mott and Cregan, rides in the wagon to the Gelvins Orphanage, where yet another young man, Tobias, joins the group. There is Roden, a strapping, athletic lad, and then there is Latamer, a sickly boy who coughs a lot. Sage is a wily orphan boy of about 15, known for his sharp tongue and mischievous ways.Īfter resisting, Sage is loaded into Conner’s wagon along with two other orphan boys who have been taken from different Carthyan orphanages. Conner is there to collect Sage, the narrator of the story, for a royal mission, though the exact nature of the mission is unclear. Turbeldy’s Orphanage for Disadvantaged Boys. The story opens with Bevin Conner, a powerful regent in King Eckbert of Carthya’s court, arriving at Mrs.
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