It was a truly massive place that could house an enormous army. So far, he had six hundred men from Bolingbroke to command plus the two hundred personal retainers he had brought with him. With an eight hundred man army at his disposal, it was an impressive sight. When he hadn’t been focused on Amalie since his arrival, he’d been surveying Hedingham and inspecting the troops. Since he was a man who liked strict order, the first thing he did was create an armory in the northwest tower of the outer wall because there seemed to be no central armory at Hedingham. The second item on his agenda was to build a troop house to hold the bulk of the army which was, as of now, sleeping in any dry place they could find. Most of them loaded up in the banquet hall and in the galleries while a few of them found lodgings in one of the smaller outbuildings that was, for the moment, vacant. Weston knew that it wasn’t a prime time of year to be building but he also knew it would give the men something to do, so he and his knights began to organize the men into groups; there were those that would collect rock and stone, those that would shape it, and those that would build.
