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On the eve of battle, Hal goes to visit Hotspur. Hotspur laughs, incredulous. “You’re favoured to win, and you’re asking for peace? Did half your army walk into a bog?” Hal looks at him, steady. There’s history between them, history that absolutely no one else knows about, and he wills Hotspur to remember that history now, and to see the change in him when he says, “I’m going to be king, Harry. I’m going to be king, and if we meet in single combat tomorrow, as we both know I will ask for, I will kill you. But I’d rather be king and have you with me. It would be better for the realm.” “Better for the realm, he says,” Hotspur says, pulling up his chair and sprawling in it, and there’s that look, that calculating look that comes after the temper which makes Hotspur a terror in the field. “Why’re you on your knees, then, if you’re asking as my future king?” “Well,” Hal says, “I thought I might sweeten the pot, a little.”

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