[ WP ] Write an ending scene that hints at the enormity of the quest that came before it .

`` Is that the last of it?'' We'd ridden hard to get here and I wanted to make sure that all of the money we were owed was being payed. Ohterson's widow deserved a steep repayment. 
 
 `` I believe so.'' The King breathed a heavy sigh. Though he was bruised, battered and aged far beyond his years, he was happy for his ordeal to be at an end. The King scanned the room with his one remaining eye. `` It'll take a lot to rebuild this palace to its former glory. The bunting is all but destroyed, the statues must be put back in place or restored and a new chamber must be dug for my father. But we will endure.'' 
 
 `` M'Lord?'' 
 
 `` Yes Halfthor?'' 
 
 `` If I may impress upon you just one more request, I wish to have my brother interned in the palace as well. He'd like to be in the ramparts where he... where he died. I know he'd like that.'' 
 
 `` Very well. Your brother has post-humous internment rights within these walls. You shall oversee his burial. I shall have to assemble a new Loyal Band to officiate the services, however. For your valor at arms and leal service in these hard times I name you, Halfthor Yonson, Head and Hand of the Loyal Band.'' I knelt before my king. I had thought of the honor, but not anticipated it. `` You shall uphold my peace within this palace, uphold the ways of our people and, should the need arise again, defend my family and its honor. As is customary -- if they have n't taken the ancient customs, too -- you shall take on the name of a dead patriarch. My father would be honored to grant you his name for your valor by his side. Arise now, Halfthor Cronderick. Would that I had the hand to dub you.'' 
 
 I rose slowly to lock my eyes with the King's. After all that had transpired, we may have found a sort of uneasy peace. Many died to secure it, but my elder brother's saying seemed to ring true that day, `` Those who will not die to uphold virtue do not deserve it.'' After so many had died, I damn well hoped we deserved it.
