“I told him to jump the fence,” Lily confessed.
“He only lost his balance because I didn’t know how to move with him,” said Tara.
“It’s a wonder the three of you weren’t killed,” said Palindor. His serious face didn’t last though.
“Why is he laughing?” Tara asked Lily.
“Look at you,” he gasped.
The girls suddenly realised that they, along with the horse, were splattered with drying mud.
“This is funny?” Tara asked Lily.
“No,” she replied, reaching down and taking a handful of mud. “But this is.” Her throw went wide, landing almost squarely in Anest’s face.
“You’re right,” laughed Palindor. “That is funny.”
A short while later, Gröl made the mistake of coming out to find what the commotion was all about.
Morlock’s army was but a few days’ march away. They sensed the end approaching, as inevitable as death. Though they could not have imagined what lay ahead, they faced the uncertain future with something like hope in their souls.
Here ends Book One of
The Fall Of The Four Kingdoms