>>5817714>>5817733Of course good sir, of course.
>>5817742Yes, it is a funny grandmother indeed.
>>5817777>>5817864>>5817873>>5817998You decided to give her the most experiences maid, you could not give her Stacy of course in fear of something awful happening, and the others were not as funny as the grandmother. You decided to tell her, while sitting right near her.
-Expiradate is old of course, very old even, but she has a sharp wit and leads all the chambermaids.
Rose raised her eyebrows, producing another one of her cute expressions, this one was a bit astonished, but playful, and she told kindly.
-Charles, tell me, is it because that you have only old councilors that you want to surround everyone with old people too ?
Hey, it was false ! Bohémond was young ! But you could not stop but laugh lightly, you answered jokingly to your lady.
-Do not worry dear Rose, I am not leaving your side to marry an old lady like some burgher from Amiens.
It was her turn to laugh and she took a falsely outraged air.
-I hope so ! Personally I do not have to, I already am engaged to a far older man...
-I am not so old, I am twenty seven !
-That is ten years of difference !
-Alright, alright Rose, I surrender, ten years being an eternity I have only to cry and to go ask Lady Sue in marriage and survive to her moralizing speeches for the rest of my life.
You both shared a laugh and since she was cold you took her against you and you both moved towards the fire. She put her head against your shoulder after you had thrown a new log into the fire. She felt hot against you. After the laughs died out she looked into the fire almost cryptically, telling simply.
-I miss Becky, Coinman, and captain Relic and the others... That they are in this horrible place.
You asked her, curious.
-He hasn't taken them back to your lands under an escort ?
She signified that no.
-No... Baron Crook, he... He ordered me to be kept in his castle, just like that, with Becky and then.. Then he showed us after some days Coinman's body, the body of Becky's father, of my steward who served my father for many years... Was flayed alive... He had done everything that they wanted everything, he gave them my tower since he couldn't resist with the few guards that we had... And they killed him, like... Like some beast.
You could see that she had trouble to keep talking, her eyes were watered by the memory and she wanted to cry, but she continued.
-When captain Relic, a man of eighty five years who had served my father, and his father before him, told that it was treachery to kill a man who did nothing wrong and when he tried to unsheathe his sword this big brute that served as guard's captain to our baron simply cleaved him in two. I... They said that Becky will be the next one if I didn't behave and mocked me and my tears.
