If we had boats, we would have burned them.
If we had gleaming gold, we would have hidden it deep in the earth with her.
But what we had were swords, and we bared them in her honour.
At Court on the Saturday of Spring War, Her Magesty, Constanzia of Lochac, had tearfully asked that honour be done to Kolfinna Kottr, Knight, Pelican and Duchess through a passage of arms, to give her the fame and worship that was due to one lost to us too young.
And so there we assembled in the cold dawn light of Sunday, King and Queen Lochac with their guards, two Roses fair, Bethan of Brockwood and Engelin and thirty one armed men and women, ready to do honour and give fame to the memory of Kolfinna Kottr, Knight of Caid, and also Duchess, and also Pelican, and also the shining light of instruction and inspiration for more souls that words can tell.
Of shield maidens, from Rowany came Aelfrynn, Pia and Kyoko, from fair Innilgard, Collette de Harcourt, and from Politokopolis, Gabrielle of the Marshes.
Sir Agro Agwesi, who had known her hospitality mere months before was in the palce of honour. Simon Macfarlane undertook to bear staff and marshal's tabard for her, in rememberence of when she had marshalled for him in his deeds of arms and chivalry at Pennsic War. Master Hambal al Barbari, now Baron Stormhold, bravest man in Lochac, took up round shield and straight sword to honour a Pelican fallen too young.
Great deeds were done that day, and honour won, but yet we knew that though this should have been done as Kitty did, light hearted with smiling joy of combat, it was done that day with heavy heart and teary eyes, for we had lost one of the best and brightest of us all.
If we had boats, we would have burned them.
If we had gleaming gold, we would have hidden it deep in the earth with her.
But what we had were swords, and we bared them in her honour.
Anton de Stoc
at Rowany
IX Oct, G+S