The three knights were named Aldric, Petra, and Corryn.
Zero provided this information without being asked, in the flat, comprehensive way she provided all information—as though the world were simply a document she had already read and was now summarising on request. She added that Aldric was thirty-one, a second-generation soldier from the Marquess's home county, twelve years of service with a meritocratic field promotion two years prior. Petra was twenty-six, noble-born but the third of four children and therefore unburdened by inheritance, which Zero noted had a statistically significant correlation with voluntary military careers. Corryn was the oldest of the three at thirty-seven, a cavalryman who had transitioned to infantry after an injury that had not, Zero observed, required the transition—his physical recovery had been complete—but which he had chosen anyway.
