Snow in July
“He suspected that more of the king’s men were watching the gates and manning the wooden palisade’s towers.
Prisoners who’d survived yesterday’s action fit to work today had been pressed into service to erect a gallows in front of the hall. He grimaced at the irony.
Had the battle occurred only yesterday?
He felt as if he’d aged a hundred years overnight.
Feigning cheerfulness, he returned the guards’ greetings. Many of these men, each one chosen by the king, Alain had fought beside at Hastings ...and during William’s earlier campaigns.
Perhaps he might find a place among them if he and Kendra couldn’t— He clamped off that line of thought. No battle was ever won on pessimism.
But questions still battered his brain.
What had become of the rebel Saxon army? How William had discovered it, Alain could guess: a conquering monarch who failed to monitor his new realm would soon become a deposed one, as evidenced by the events of the past several days. But how had the king arrived so quickly?MoreLess
Prisoners who’d survived yesterday’s action fit to work today had been pressed into service to erect a gallows in front of the hall. He grimaced at the irony.
Had the battle occurred only yesterday?
He felt as if he’d aged a hundred years overnight.
Feigning cheerfulness, he returned the guards’ greetings. Many of these men, each one chosen by the king, Alain had fought beside at Hastings ...and during William’s earlier campaigns.
Perhaps he might find a place among them if he and Kendra couldn’t— He clamped off that line of thought. No battle was ever won on pessimism.
But questions still battered his brain.
What had become of the rebel Saxon army? How William had discovered it, Alain could guess: a conquering monarch who failed to monitor his new realm would soon become a deposed one, as evidenced by the events of the past several days. But how had the king arrived so quickly?MoreLess
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