I suppose it’s safer to stay within the castle walls than outside.”Isabella asked perplexed, “Why do you say that?”cheap kd 5“Humphrey’s men might pillage the town for supplies. I don’t want you to be there when that happens. Mainly because I won’t be there to fight for you.”Isabella smiled broadly. Peter forgot how to breathe for a moment.She said, “Oh, my darling is such a knight. But I know a thing or two about fighting. I have gotten scratched up in a few fights before.”“This is something completely different. I’ve seen what armies are capable of, and I would die if anything happened to you.”Isabella squeezed his hand, “I’ll stay here with you. For you.”“And I for you too.”The things you do for the people you love, Peter thought.Chapter 21“Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.” (Ray Bradbury)On the Road to LincolnOne Month LaterThe night came with them.The ground trembled in fear as they marched over it, grinding the stone to dust and the dirt to water in their wake. Not since the times of Darius’s massive army at Thermopylae kd 5 for sale has an army broken the earth and scared even nature back into the woods. Alexander the Great himself would have sputtered with a crying joy, seeing such a gorgeous sight – a song without any rests – march by him on the dirt road.The little moonlight that found its way through the soupy clouds reflected off glinting armor and shields. There was an eerie creaking as whinnying horses carted massive, wheeled machines. The westerly wind that breathed through fluttered the standard at the front of the column. A roaring lion was painted on the standard’s fabric, held up by the royal crown drawn beneath it.And so the column kept marching, its eyes on Raven’s Crest.Peter was in deep discussion with one of his guards. Apparently, the guard found out from his brother in town that there was an abandoned cheap kd 6 farmhouse to the south of Lincoln. The owner was away on business to the west. Rumor had it that the man always kept a healthy stockpile of food on hand. Peter was reluctant to steal his way to victory, but he had reasoned that since he was already in deep enough trouble, a bit of pillaging couldn’t hurt. So he sent a few of his men off to the farmhouse, telling them that they could only come back if they had a wagon filled with food behind them.As Peter watched the soldiers leave, a guard from atop the gatehouse called down, “Milord! There is a man running towards the castle, kd 6 for sale demanding entrance.”Confused, Peter shouted, “What is his name?”A pause, then the guard yelled, “It’s Tom O’Bedlam, milord!”Peter groaned. Tom was a bottomfeeder in Lincoln’s hierarchy. Nobody knew where he came from, but everyone was interested in seeing him go. Dressed in rags and always speaking in slurs and halts, Tom was a grimy man to talk with.