Chapter 4

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"I didn't really feel like answering any questions about the night of the Saxon raid so I walked back into the woods and found a spot to sit down under a tree. An ant caught my eye it was walking across my shoe; I started wondering if the ant had any uncertainties any fears or problems of its own. After about 10 minutes of watching the rhythmic insect I heard some footsteps coming towards me, 'it's probably Tristan' I thought to myself, but was surprised to see Lancelot moving towards me, his eyes were scanning through all the trees looking for me, it was early morning and there was a scatter of pearly light from the sky down through the trees.

"Lancelot." I called, as to put a stop to his search. He looked over to where I was sitting on the ground, his face had looked worried but his anxiousness turned into a smile when he saw me.

"Ahh I found you." He said as he walked over and sat down next to me.

"Are we going now?" I asked looking back down to the ant who was now marching up my leg.

Lancelot shook his head "Probably not for another two hours or so you can rest if you want."

I was very tired and rested my head against Lancelot's shoulder still watching the ant. I felt my eyes close and although it felt like I had only blinked and not even been asleep for two minutes let alone two hours I awoke to Noah crouching over me with his hand on my shoulder gently shaking it. I looked around lazily to see Lancelot still laying next to me his eyes were closed and he looked in a state of peacefulness that one can only reach while sleeping.

"Don't." I said I huddled up a little tighter trying to keep warm. I wasn't in the best mood in the morning.

"Come on Jess." Noah's voice said "its time to go."

But I didn't want to move. Couldn't move I was like a five year old again.

"Come on Jess." Noah said again he didn't even sound sympathetic just bullying and irritated, too tired himself to have any sympathy for me.

He tugged on my leg and I kicked out angrily and connected pretty hard with his side. Noah winced in pain and I realized I'd have to move now. I'd put myself too far in the wrong. So

without a word of apology to Noah who was holding his side and scowling I started to sit up as he walked away back to the camp.

Lancelot had been woken up during the episode and he was obviously a much better morning person than me.

"Morning." He said rubbing his eyes he stood up and then turned to me holding out his hand and helping me to my feet.

"Thanks." I mumbled, Lancelot didn't let go of my hand and he led me back to the campsite.

When we arrived I saw that everything was packed up.

"Jess get your horse ready." Hernam shouted at me from where he was. He said it in a more polite way than was natural for him which made me think Arthur or one of the other knights had had a talking to him. And I was very grateful.

We managed to get to the Village without any injuries we had a brief encounter with some Woads but they surprisingly didn't attack.

As we entered some people looked up from what they were doing and curiously wandered over.

I led my horse over to the village to take a closer look. The people looked strangely underfeed. I glanced back at Arthur a well dressed man had walked up to him I couldn't make out what they were saying.

"I am Alecto." I heard a voice say from above I looked over to where a skinny boy was standing on top of the wall. I had made a conscious decision to help out Arthur and the knights more so to make myself useful I went looking around, there was a small house made of stone but the door was sealed it looked very curious I walked over to it to have a closer look. The stone was dark and old and there was a strange smell coming from it. I ran my hand down the wall it was rough and dirty.

"Hey." Someone shouted at me.

I looked over to see two of the roman guards coming towards me.

"What's in there?" I asked standing my ground.

"It's none of your concern." One of the guards spat at me.

I took a step past them closer to the building one of the guards grabbed my arm and pushed me back. I pulled my sword out of its hold and pointed it at his throat. By this time Arthur had also noticed the house and the knights had walked over to where I was standing.

"What's in there?" Arthur asked.

"You cannot go in there." the man who I guessed was Marius said as he walked over to where we were all standing. Lancelot put his hand on mine and pushed it down making me lower my sword from the guard's throat.

"Dagonet." Arthur called

"We don't have time." Tristan stated. I was trying to ignore the sound of the Saxons drums hoping that I was crazy and they weren't really there.

Dagonet lifted his axe and knocked down the stone.

"Key." Arthur asked turning to Marius.

"It's locked from the inside." Marius said as Dagonet proceeded to knock down the door.

I had walked closer to the door as Dagonet was knocking it down and immediately wished I hadn't when the door swung open there was a smell that came out so fast I stumbled backwards into Lancelot who caught me. I moved to walk into the building after Arthur but Lancelot grabbed my hand pulling me back. I was grateful for this as I probably wouldn't have been able to stand the smell.

I walked back to Noah who was getting all the villagers ready to leave.

"What's with the hut?" Noah asked without looking at me.

"Sorry about this morning." I said ignoring his question.

"Don't worry about it" he said shaking his head.

I stood there watching him pack everything into a wagon there was something different about him.

"So what's with you and Lancelot?" Noah asked breaking the silence.

"What do you mean?" I asked a little confused.

"Well he likes you doesn't he" Noah stated. He said this without any emotion in his voice so it was hard to tell if he was being sarcastic.

I didn't know the answer to this and when I opened my mouth to say something nothing came out. I turned and looked back at Lancelot he was helping the knights carry some people out of the hut. I walked over to the knights without another word to Noah.

"Who are they?" I asked Galahad. There was a small boy who Dagonet was inspecting and a woman who looked like a woad.

"Pagans I guess." He answered

"She's a woad." Tristan stated

I kneeled next to Arthur who was helping the woad.

"I'll get some water." Arthur said getting up and walking to his horse.

I had guessed by now that the building was some sort of torture chamber for Pagans.

The woads hands were tied together with rope. So I pulled out my dagger and cut them of her.

"Why did you cut me free Christian?" The woad asked me breathlessly.

"Whatever blood is in your veins, no man deserves to die in there." I replied as Arthur came back and gave her some water.

"Don't help them." I heard someone shout I started to turn around but felt a hard blow to the back of my head I fell forward then everything went black.

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