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Chapter 3: Journey
"So what's going to happen?" Mia asked. Mia was one of the other captured knights.
"I've told you once before," Azure exclaimed.
They were standing in the barracks of a calvary unit, where the knights were being held. "The Amazons are going to take all the knights to a castle just beyond the border. There they will find the one who killed their sister. When the murderer is found, they will release everyone else. So long as you obey the Amazon's orders, everyone will be fine."
"If you really think that it is best to obey the Amazons, you know we will," Mia said.
"I do."
*** The next morning, the knights were escourted out of the barracks by a band of armed Amazons. According to Azure's orders, the knights did as they were commanded and caused as little trouble as possible. Queen Abigail was allowed to ride her horse, but the rest of the knights were made to walk. The Amazons were not unduely cruel to the knights, but they were not overly kind to them either. They left the knights more or less to themselves on the march, unless, of course, they were causing some sort of trouble.
Azure tried her best to keep the other knights from causing too much trouble, but some just would not listen to her. One knight in particular, Jim, did his best to annoy the Amazons assigned to guard the knights. Often he would harass the guards with words and gestures. Several nights, after they had halted for the evening, Jim recieved a spectacular thrashing for his efforts. Mia managed to get into a fight with one of the guards; she was rewarded by having her hands bound every day, not to mention a black eye (she lost the fight ).
Many days Diana felt that the only reason her Amazon sisters did not simply kill all of the knights right then was because Queen Hippolyta had had a vision instructing her not to do that. In this vision, the goddess Athena had told Hippolyta that one of the enemy knights would destroy Themiscara. Athena gave the Amazon queen a plan to find and destroy this knight; she had said that she would reveal the knight that must be killed when they reached the castle over the border. Although the Amazons despised the deseption of this plan, they complied because they would lose their homeland if they did not.
Diana was as loyal to Themiscara as any other Amazon, but she wished that she could simply challenge this knight to single combat. If she could only do that, Themiscara would be safe; and her conscience would be clean. The other Amazons would be happy as well if she could do this, but they would not dare to go against the wishes of Athena.
Azure wondered why the Amazons seemed not to care about their murdered sister. She had tried to apologize to one of them a few days ago, but she seemed to know nothing about a murder. This made Azure very suspicious about the truth of the Amazons' story. She tried to ask Diana about this one night at the evening campfire, but she refused to talk about it.
Abigail, the knights' captured queen, was usually kept separate from her knights; but Azure and some of the other knights were occasionally allowed to speak with her after they stopped for the evening rest. When they were allowed leisure time to talk together, they often asked themselves why only a certain few of the Amazons seemed to know anything about their murdered sister. Many of the knights believed that the Amazons had lied to them, and Azure was inclined to agree that it seemed that they had indeed deceived the knights.
At last, Azure demanded an answer. "Princess Diana, why will you not tell us the real reason you have captured us?"
"I have told you," Diana replied.
"Princess, I have worked very hard to keep peace between my friends and your sisters; I believe you at least owe me the truth."
"Azure, I cannot tell you anything but what you already know. I am truly sorry," Diana answered.
They spoke no more of the matter for the remainder of the journey.
On the fifth day of hard travel, they reach the border of Abigail's kingdom. Only one day of travel remined until they reached the castle where the knights would be questioned. A sense of forboding hung over the heads of the knights.
Chapter 3: Journey
"So what's going to happen?" Mia asked. Mia was one of the other captured knights.
"I've told you once before," Azure exclaimed.
They were standing in the barracks of a calvary unit, where the knights were being held. "The Amazons are going to take all the knights to a castle just beyond the border. There they will find the one who killed their sister. When the murderer is found, they will release everyone else. So long as you obey the Amazon's orders, everyone will be fine."
"If you really think that it is best to obey the Amazons, you know we will," Mia said.
"I do."
*** The next morning, the knights were escourted out of the barracks by a band of armed Amazons. According to Azure's orders, the knights did as they were commanded and caused as little trouble as possible. Queen Abigail was allowed to ride her horse, but the rest of the knights were made to walk. The Amazons were not unduely cruel to the knights, but they were not overly kind to them either. They left the knights more or less to themselves on the march, unless, of course, they were causing some sort of trouble.
Azure tried her best to keep the other knights from causing too much trouble, but some just would not listen to her. One knight in particular, Jim, did his best to annoy the Amazons assigned to guard the knights. Often he would harass the guards with words and gestures. Several nights, after they had halted for the evening, Jim recieved a spectacular thrashing for his efforts. Mia managed to get into a fight with one of the guards; she was rewarded by having her hands bound every day, not to mention a black eye (she lost the fight ).
Many days Diana felt that the only reason her Amazon sisters did not simply kill all of the knights right then was because Queen Hippolyta had had a vision instructing her not to do that. In this vision, the goddess Athena had told Hippolyta that one of the enemy knights would destroy Themiscara. Athena gave the Amazon queen a plan to find and destroy this knight; she had said that she would reveal the knight that must be killed when they reached the castle over the border. Although the Amazons despised the deseption of this plan, they complied because they would lose their homeland if they did not.
Diana was as loyal to Themiscara as any other Amazon, but she wished that she could simply challenge this knight to single combat. If she could only do that, Themiscara would be safe; and her conscience would be clean. The other Amazons would be happy as well if she could do this, but they would not dare to go against the wishes of Athena.
Azure wondered why the Amazons seemed not to care about their murdered sister. She had tried to apologize to one of them a few days ago, but she seemed to know nothing about a murder. This made Azure very suspicious about the truth of the Amazons' story. She tried to ask Diana about this one night at the evening campfire, but she refused to talk about it.
Abigail, the knights' captured queen, was usually kept separate from her knights; but Azure and some of the other knights were occasionally allowed to speak with her after they stopped for the evening rest. When they were allowed leisure time to talk together, they often asked themselves why only a certain few of the Amazons seemed to know anything about their murdered sister. Many of the knights believed that the Amazons had lied to them, and Azure was inclined to agree that it seemed that they had indeed deceived the knights.
At last, Azure demanded an answer. "Princess Diana, why will you not tell us the real reason you have captured us?"
"I have told you," Diana replied.
"Princess, I have worked very hard to keep peace between my friends and your sisters; I believe you at least owe me the truth."
"Azure, I cannot tell you anything but what you already know. I am truly sorry," Diana answered.
They spoke no more of the matter for the remainder of the journey.
On the fifth day of hard travel, they reach the border of Abigail's kingdom. Only one day of travel remined until they reached the castle where the knights would be questioned. A sense of forboding hung over the heads of the knights.