When they got home they unpacked and tried to rest until there was a knock at the door. Will got up and opened it to find Alyss standing there.
"Will. You, Halt, and Saya need to come to the castle now."
"What's wrong?"
"I'll explain on the way."
Halt, Will, and Saya grabbed their cloaks and weapons and headed out the door and mounted their horses and followed Alyss. Alyss explained there was a leader of a clan in the southern most part of Araluen who wanted to negotiate something with the King Duncan, but he wouldn't say what. Alyss explained that he wanted the three of them there because he needed advice from Halt and Will and he knew he had to have Saya come along too. Saya wasn't offended by this she knew she was just an apprentice in her first year of training, what did she know.
As they came into the meeting room, she took a seat next to Will at the table. She was trying to stay calm and not speak. She saw some familiar people in the room Horace, Pauline, the King, Sir Rodney, but that was about it. As the meeting began it was hard for her to pay attention to what was being said, because she didn't know that it was him.