“We were received by that great merchant and studmaster Cuno in his Villa at Mar, which is only one of his estates but perhaps the grandest. Like other great men of our modern age he did not inherit his power, but instead elected to seize it himself through perseverance and great force of body and mind.”
The King’s mounted dragonslayer proxy did tower over the drones there, abandoned and incapacitated so very long ago by water and mud.
Antoine Pirouet.
"The 2013 Swedenborg Prize in Numerology is awarded to Antoine Pirouet, for his statistical investigation of which numbers are everywhere, everywhere I tell you."
It's 23, 41 and 9.
From Wikipedia!