The wagon was not moving. Maggie lay on blankets near the tent doorway, taking up most of the rest of the space. She, or someone else, must have decreed that I should never be unwatched. Maggie would have organized the watches. Even when the watch was not hers, she stayed nearby. The girl knew th...
But when Tom wished to tell me something, there was no escaping him. While Jee, huddled in Tom's fur cloak against the cold, watched us across the fire, Tom burbled on. ‘That savage bastard – the guard who watches me when you're gone – allows me much more freedom now. Well, I'm tied, ain't I? And...
“The army has seized all the horses.” “They will burn us all at once, in a huge fire, where all the villagers can see.” “The servants will hide the food from us.” “We will have to eat rats. They did that in the old times during sieges.” “They will take the city and burn us as traitors—” The ladie...