>>6038148He is probably simply being hysterical after having seen the state of the dentition of Ancel. Or smelled him. We cannot blame him.
>>6038229>>6038234>>6038259>>6038325>>6038820>>6038865>>6039159You decided to be honest and answered your new baron.
-Yes your excellency, the lady in waiting of lady Rose was indeed imprisoned by baron Crook, then my knight, who loved her, tried to free her against my wishes, I sent specialists to free both of them but they were not assassins. Judge me as you see fit, but I shall always help those in need.
You will not lie to your overlord, you acted well within your rights. After all the baron was no more the baron at this time, he was in jail and he had no right to imprison your lady's retainers. The new baron tried to ask you.
-And why was the lady in waiting arrested ?
You were about to answer when Rose spoke first, she looked at the guelph with a pained expression and told.
-My liege I would wish to answer since I was there then.
He took a reassuring expression and explained
-Go on, please, lady Takable.
Then she talked, she explained how the baron was furious, how he flayed alive Coinmain, her councilor and the councilor of her father because she had been travelling to your castle and how he told that her lady in waiting would be next, how he tried to transport her towards another kingdom. You saw that it was hard for her to recall it but you saw too that it would be very difficult to refuse something to a lady who had lost so much. The new baron had to answer.
-My lady, this baron, if what you say is true, is a mad man... Cristmasel, read the mind of this gnome please. And not here, I do not want this spectacle to shock a lady.
His witch nodded and caught the gnome who was afraid and screamed that he only obeyed orders. You loved the local metaphor for torture. Even if you liked the french one more. To "read the mind" was poetic and amusing. In France we called torturing people "la question" or more familiarly "la questionnette". It meant the question, to ask.
It was of course because confession was the queen of proofs and a man had to say that he was guilty before we could condemn him. So we applied the ordinary question with brodequins to break legs and other joyful things or the extraordinary question for particularly nasty cases. So you let the small Jew be tortured, well, ha had to be honest in his service if he did not want to be punished like this. So you let the baron give you some very light Guelph wine and tell you that they shall take possession of Someplace. You still understood that you would be not welcome for long because the new ruler probably wanted to redo all the interiors of the keep before inviting his people. He even wanted to change the exterior finding Someplace to be "grotesque". So you were back at your dear Local after some days of travels. What good news to see home again after having a sore back from riding too much.
