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ALANNA'S MISADVENTURE

Fingers, who had been up several times during the night to see how Alanna was doing came over to them again. "Has there been any change?"

"No, I'm afraid not. We will know more when he wakes up." Mistress Cooper announced her voice loud so that all the hasty questions were answered at once.

Myles leaned over to Georges mother. "I must return to the palace. I am expected to be teaching this morning, but I will return this afternoon. If I am able I will bring Jon with me. Maybe he can help her, fight or not."

"Good luck with that." She whispered back to him, and then watched the knight don his cloak and slip from the Dancing Dove almost like a shadow. She couldn't help thinking that he was rather handsome.

***

Myles rode hard back to the castle and arrived in time to see Stefan return to the stables after having his breakfast.

"Sir Myles." He greeted the knight.

"Stefan." He nodded and dismounted.

"How is Squire Alan?"

"How do you know about that?"

"I am in the business of observing sir. George wouldn't have come here unless it had something to do with the little tike. I have also noticed that the lad didn't show up at the practice courts early this morning with that great big sword of his."

"What do you mean?"

"Surly you knew that Alan still trains with the heavy broad sword that his man-servant left behind when he ran off to run Trebond?"

"No, I hadn't realized that. Thankyou for telling me."

"Not a problem. Send my wishes to the lad."

"I shall."

Myles left the stable still a little shocked at the information that he had just been handed. He didn't have time to ponder the question however as the large bell chimed, sounding the beginning of classes.

He got to the classroom just as the last of his class assembled. He looked them over and saw Alan's friends in the squire ranks grouped together at the back of the classroom. They were talking furiously, probably wanting to know where their young friend was.

Entering yet another debate about the code of chivalry, Myles let the class breeze bye and set the customary amount of homework. He went through almost the exact same process with the Pages that he had next.

It felt like forever, but was only a couple of hours later that he was free of the teaching aspect of his knight hood and got on his way to find Jonathon and his friends. They were all in the back room of the library supposedly studying. That wasn't really what it looked like though.

"Gentlemen, I hope that I am not interrupting anything?" He said, his voice clearly amused as a ball of paper was thrown toward the door, hitting the frame and bouncing off harmlessly.

"Sorry Myles." Gary murmured, ashamed of his silly actions.

"Nonsense. There's no harm done. I do however need to discuss something important with you all."

Raoul sat forward in his chair, and Jon's ears pricked up. "Does this have anything to do with George being here last night?"

"George was here? What is he, mad?" Raoul protested.

"Did he forget about the Lord Provost or something?" Gary added shaking his head at their mutual friend.

"He came to get me." Myles continued. "It would seem that young Alan has gone and gotten himself into some trouble."

"What!?"

"Not again."

"Where is he?"

All the boys fired off questions and Myles held up a hand halting them. "It would seem that Alan and Jon here had some sort of disagreement and he was headed into the city to vent. He took a wrong turn and was ambushed by heavily armed men, well I assume that is what happened. He appeared to have escaped with his life, but was seriously injured. He made it to the Dancing Dove, and is now in the care of Mistress Cooper, Georges mother." He finished.

The boy's were silent for a moment before Raoul spoke up. "Why doesn't he come back to the palace then?"

"Well.Mistress Cooper doesn't really want to move him. She is still concerned."

"Oh."

"Jon, would you come back with me. The other thing that I still haven't told you is that Alan seems to have made an enemy of a powerful mage. Who ever it was attacked him last night with their gift. You Jon are the only one that I can think of that would be able to help her reject the attack if it were to come again."

"Well all come." Gary stated firmly. "We are all knights here, we no longer need permission to go into Corus."

"Very well. Have your horses saddled. We leave at once."