The Traitor's Tale
“Given a leader better than most and driven by years of rough injustices and this past year's failure of the war in France, men had gathered to him in the thousands and marched on London, demanding justice from the king and his lords; and the king and his lords had fled, had disappeared northward. Their thought had maybe been that London would be safe enough with the wide river Thames and the towered gates and drawbridge of London Bridge to keep the rebels at bay; but four days ago London, angry... enough at its own wrongs and angrier still at the king's betrayal, had opened the bridge's gates and let the rebels in. And riding toward London, Joliffe had watched the sky, thinking to see smoke from burning buildings, expecting to meet with droves of escaping citizens. He had counted on learning from them how bad matters were in the city, but the few he met with were more interested in keeping going than talking, had seemed more grumbling than terror-struck. With that and the lack of any black towers of smoke, he chose to stop at an inn outside London's Newgate in hopes of learning more about what was happening in the city before going in himself. The innkeeper, his business slack—"You're the first traveler in here these three days past.MoreLess
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