>>5426225>>5426231>>5426326>>5426331>>5426355>>5426412>>5426492Looking at the lovely lady near you you told.
-What a charming landscape, you should have brought your harp dear Rose, you have such an enchanting way of playing it.
She smiled at you before answering.
-You are too kind Charles, I will try to bring it next time, I could play for you under a Myrtle tree while we will see the sun setting. We can fetch someone back to the castle to bring it if you want.
She said it in a so sweet tone, and so full of love that you were yourself touched, you were both cuddling while you answered.
-It would be a lovely idea Rose, a very lovely idea. Once our escort will be back I will send a rider.
She thanked you and kissed you on the cheek, then she told.
-Thank you... I hope, that we will be able to ride often, across all the lands, look at hidden forest ponds, sunsets, or even at night at the moon from the battlements... Is there a more beautiful symbol of love as a lady and a knight before the beauty of nature.
-It all pales in comparison to your red lips and the blue ponds that are your eyes.
She blushed sweetly and seemed to have troubles to answer, it sounded like a praise from a song of fin' amor but let us be prosaic, when you saw a beautiful woman and a landscape you looked at the beautiful woman. It was normal.
You then heard the horses of your escort who was coming nearby, they had packed some food and it was probable that they would be able to lit a fire with wood from some lone trees of this plain. Indian autumns seemed to be as cold as those in northern France. When they came Brother Louis told you.
-Monseigneur, our men say that we should not stay to close to those hills, remember, they say there are outpost of Saracens here, like in the massif des Maures. We should not let our guard down.
You frowned, it was true that there were enemies everywhere, you had fought witches and wolf beasts and even saxon men in those hills but still. Saracens, how could someone have never talked to you about it. Lady Takable seemed to be even more distraught. She said.
-My father told me that there were monsters and kobolds on those hills. And that they should be avoided at all costs... Even if there are villages here. But saracens, what is it Sir Louis ? I never heard of this kind of beasts ?
O happy woman who had never heard about the infidels, the old templar looked at her and began to explain.
-I fought against them in the deserts with our good king Saint Louis ma dame. They are southern men, infidels, who hold the holy places, ransom the pilgrims and raid our coasts on their galleys, they take the peasants and the women and sell them into slavery. They are not a match to our knights but they are numerous and perfidious.
She looked distraught.
-You mean southern men ? I never heard of them in Bifuria...
You interrupted her, asking.
-Oldfossil told me once about kobolds once or twice but I never understood what they are.
