>>5456216>>5456394>>5456403Well the roll is obviously a failure.
>>5456488>>5456562Wise thing to say, and what an awful place. This is what you get when you pray to Apollo, Tervagant and Mahomet instead of our Lord. It should, one day, be cleansed by a rightheous crusade called by a new Urbain II.
>>5456646>>5457048You thought that humility was the best way to remind her that you were still human and not a hero of a past time.
-My lady, you flatter me too much, I am but a humble knight with his share of defects. I wish I could equal Roland or Charlemagne but I am only trying. Do not worry about worthiness, you are the most beautiful and gentle maiden in all the Indias.
She listened to you kindly and reddened.
-Thank you Charles... I... we are always trying to improve I guess. With the responsibilities of our status it is so hard to be as the examples that we see in the past. But maybe.. maybe sometimes songs will be sung about us too.
Her smile made you blush and you decided to kiss her hand gently. Then... Maybe it was the time, maybe it was the soft hands of the lady that you held or it was the landscape with it's calm waters and the sounds of the autumnal forest, but you made a huge mistake. You had to tell it, it was, it was hard to imagine why but in presence of women men tended to be more stupid than they were. You answered her.
-It is hard, yes, I... I have always been a third son, illiterate even, I ignored how to rule, and now I rule a lordship... And in India, where the customs are strange... And people even more strange, sometimes I had to make rash decisions that could not be understood well by locals this Guelph that I vanquished, he saw it, I am sure...
She turned towards you, and asked you with a protective kind of curiosity in her tone.
-He saw what ?
You then, fool that you were, told her the truth, it was sometimes a bad omen in love and every frenchman knew that truth was love's worst enemy. But you told her nevertheless.
-I... When I came here, I ignored everything about the land, and it's people, so when my dear Ancel told me that he saw saracens in armors made of glinting steel I decided to investigate myself, and what I saw was... Terrifying, a party of three people, without helmets but armored in steel like I never saw any person be armored... One of them was a saracen...
-A what ?
-A saracen, black like charcoal, only it's teeth were white, the other was even stranger, a woman, in armor ! And the third one, he was looking like a frenchman but he inhaled smoke by a small apparatus and spat it out... It was clearly sulphur and I thought that they were pactising with the demon. I ordered my men to charge and even if those fools tried to appeal to their pagan gods we smashed them right and true.
-You killed them all ?
