The Orphan King

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He rolled into a sitting position and wiped straw from his face. How is a person to mark the passage of time in this dark hole? he muttered in his mind. No bells to mark the church offices; no sun to mark dawn or nightfall.In the unending flickering of torches, Thomas could see that Waleran lay huddled motionless on one side of the cell; William snored gently in his corner.The knight is tired too, Thomas observed.Because he knew the boredom that stretched ahead, Thomas concentrated on a routine... to delay his restlessness. He plucked from his mind the first of many well-worn questions, determined to gnaw it yet again, like an animal searching for the tiniest shred of undiscovered meat.It demanded patience to turn first one question, then another, over and over in his mind, to approach it from every angle, to fit different facts into place. In four days of captivity, Thomas had concluded nothing new from all his questions and thoughts. However, all he had was time, and the questions, like him, would not leave the cell.Who is this knight?MoreLess

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