>>5716646Curiously instead of being afraid, or maybe to show that they were courageous both ladies giggled. You ignored the answer of the brunette who told something about "an exciting mystery" and that "we should see who had a donkey or a cart in the village". She was ugly and already infirm, needed besicles, at her young age. The other one tried to impress you, you knew these kind of girls, daughters of rich peasants, and merchants, were always dreaming of a knight, they had the luxurious tastes of noblewomen but not the grace nor the culture of them. It is why you never married them, and often they were not preserved by some kind of physical labor and became fat afterwards, like their burgher husbands, an ugly people for an ugly function in society. But this girl was one of the beautiful ones, who wanted, on the contrary, to learn and to impress a bit, and she decided to impress you by her recklessness, probably tying it to something that a knight would appreciate.
-You know my lord, if you brought us to make us afraid, I am not. And I am sure that this ghost isn't real.
She giggled at the end and you looked at her impressed before bumping into Notheard. You quickly turned around to tell him.
-By the beard of Saint Jacques, why do you, damned dog, have stopped ?
-I saw a strange stone my lord. Look, it seems to not be connected to the rest... We should be careful not to march on it...
You looked at it, your two guardsmen and the girls, the half blind one telling.
-It looks like something that I saw in a book... But is it repaired.
The red haired lady, looking at it, decided that it was nothing and told.
-I am sure that it is not, and maybe it will open a hidden door. Look.
And she marched on it, before you could catch her to stop her. Effectively, there was a hidden door, right under the careless girl, you heard a "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH" and a kind of huge splash. She seemed to have fallen in water. You told.
-Do someone has a rope ? And, are you wounded ?
You preferred the maybe sinister "are you wounded" to the more common "is everything alright" because asking someone if everything was alright when he fell in a kind of well were not the wisest words that someone could pronounce. You heard her deformed voice, she seemed to call.
-Help...
Looking with a torch to the thing you saw that she fell into a quite high well, a devious trap if there was one. None of your men had ropes, it seemed that you had to rescue a damsel in distress. You asked her bespectacled friend.
-Does she knows how to swim ?
The other one looked quite panicked and could only mutter.
-I hope...
And now you had a damsel in distress to rescue. One part of you wanted to curse her for throwing herself more stupidly into danger than a just knighted squire, but another part of you remembered that she wanted to become an armed vagrant and that could tell a lot about her personality.
