Kate and Alan escape from the Castle, Alan being the one who smacked down most of the guards for Kate. Then they reach the city walls.
Alan looked around, searching for John, but he wasn't there. "Come this way." He said, taking two horses from the guards without them watching and noticing. "We'll go to Locksley." He said.
Kate nodded, that would be a chance for her to see her mother again. She saw how Alan held out his hand to help her on her horse, but she could do that herself, and refused his help.
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"Mother!" Kate yelled of happiness and embraced her mother.
"Kate, what are you doing here? You could get yourself in trouble! Where's Robin?"
"Don't worry, ma'am. I'm with her." Alan said, standing at the door post.
"Oh, honny, I missed you so much!" Kate's mother said, ignoring Alan and giving her daughter an other hug of relief.
Alan sighed and closed the door behind him, watching out the window.
Kate told her mother all about her time with the outlaws, and she was most happy about Robin. The whole conversation lasted an hour, and meanwhile Alan had almost fallen to sleep on the chair under the window. But the reunion was boldly cut off by a scream from outside.
Alan jumped up, awake, he almost pressed his eye against the glass. "It's Prince John's man!"
Kate looked in terror at her mother. "Mom, sneak out at the back door, we'll handle it."
Her mother knew she couldn't protest, and left for the back door.
"How many?" Kate asked Alan.
"I don't know, about twenty." Alan said as he and Kate were hiding under the window.
"Oh, we're screwed!"
"Outlaw, get out of there with your hands up, and you won't be harmed!"
Kate bit her lip, the soldiers had only seen one of them, probably Alan. She crawled against the wall and held her hand on her sword. The warning was repeated a few times, until a new one came to air.
"Get out, and we'll do this woman no harm!"
Kate and Alan watched over the edge of the window and saw Kate's mom in one of the soldier's hands.