![]() ![]() They were very well armed and armoured in the latest Eastern manner-steel everywhere. Carefully, laboriously, he wrote:Ī Company of Adventure-well ordered, and bearing a pass signed by the constable-passed the bridge yesterday morning near to forty lances, each lance composed of a knight, a squire, a valet and an archer. The captain had a window that looked north-west.Īnd put pen to paper. ![]() ![]() All you had to do to get them was ride north or west into the Wild. Albinkirk furs were the marvel of ten countries. A garrison that had too much cash, because the posting came with the right to invest in fur caravans from the north. ![]() A garrison of hirelings who bossed the weak, abused the women, and took money from the tradesmen. It was a rank he’d achieved through pure talent.Īnd as a reward, he sat in this rich town with a garrison a third the size that it was supposed to be on paper. The Captain of Albinkirk, Ser John Crayford, had not started his life as a gentleman. His hands pained him all the time, awake or asleep. His hands remembered everything-the blows, the nights on the ground, the freezing cold, the gauntlets that didn’t quite fit. All those deeds of arms make wonderful stories, but the doing is cold, wet and terrifying. While he sat in a town so safe it was dull, growing old.ĭon’t be a fool, he told himself. Jealous of a boy a third of his age, commanding a pretty company of lances. The Captain of Albinkirk forced himself to stop staring out his narrow, glazed window and do some work. ![]()
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