>>5807536It is only fair.
>>5807555You sir, are a true gentleman.
>>5807579>>5807653>>5807738>>5807826You ordered some men to wait in ambush while you gave some others the instructions to remain here and act after some time. You gave them only six old horses while you were keeping the best with your soldiers. Unfortunately your clever plan managed to be known in advance by your enemies, probably because of some sorceries and you ordered your men to leave the ambush while you came towards the place where the angry councilor was calling you from the small forest clearing where you had put the horses. You hesitated in answering him, since your men were saddling your horses but after some words with Godefroi you decided to go there with all your troops.
You came in surrounded by your soldiers and when he told you to stop you could see that he was still looking at your horses and holding more or less Lady Takable with a knife in his hands. She seemed to not be as afraid as before, looking at you with expectation, as if you had told her something, even if she remained docile and silent it seemed that there was some tension in her posture. You knew, of course, that in some chansons de fin amor it was said that lovers could understand each other without speaking but here you were absolutely not sure of what she meant, and if she was about to do something... Unwise. As for Crueail he seemed to focus more on his conversation than on trying to slice her neck.
His soldiers were around him, still on foot and he was with the witch, who looked furious while the captain looked indifferent. Crueail began with :
-How dare you ! You do not give us all horses, against our will, do you not know what...
You answered in a calm voice before he could squeeze more the poor Rose who he was holding. Her little frame was did not try to resist too much. You told.
-I have given you a horse for you and each one of your men, a palfrey. This makes six horses, the witch is clearly a woman.
Your facts and logic made some of your men smile, but not the baron's councilor who answered angrily and pointed at one of his guardsmen who, appeared to be, if judging by forms under her chainmail, a woman.
-And Forgether is a woman too and you gave her a horse, do not try to use this nonsense against me !
