Wicked Wyckerly
“Maybe the physical exercise of restraining the beast aided his thinking, but somewhere along the way, he’d decided that if he had been in Tommy’s shoes, he would have loaded the children on a convenient farm wagon. A wagon was more likely to be headed into the village than to London. That left all of Croydon to search while his friends traversed the byways between here and the city. In the gathering dark and storm.
He had utterly no idea where farm wagons went once they left the farm. Stopping at a sprawling inn where one or two empty carts sat about, he threw the reins to a stableboy, ordered the horse wiped down and fed, and sprinted through the innyard to the tavern.
If the farm was five miles out of town and the children had caught an oxcart that traveled five miles an hour, they would have reached Croydon before the messenger had time to travel ten miles into the city after catching a coach in Croydon, and before Fitz could cross the crowded bridge out of London and trave...l ten miles.MoreLess
He had utterly no idea where farm wagons went once they left the farm. Stopping at a sprawling inn where one or two empty carts sat about, he threw the reins to a stableboy, ordered the horse wiped down and fed, and sprinted through the innyard to the tavern.
If the farm was five miles out of town and the children had caught an oxcart that traveled five miles an hour, they would have reached Croydon before the messenger had time to travel ten miles into the city after catching a coach in Croydon, and before Fitz could cross the crowded bridge out of London and trave...l ten miles.MoreLess
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