Beaupoint, England—May 19, 1376
Beaupoint, England—May 19, 1376Amaury de Vries could not sleep.
The moon was new and the lands around Beaupoint’s tower were shadowed in darkness. He surveyed them, using the glass from Elizabeth’s father, frustrated by his sense that something was amiss. There had been an uncommon amount of activity on both firth and road of late. Warriors were arriving and departing from Stonehaven and Workington, as if a great force was being mustered, but he knew not where or why. Lord Henry Percy, the Warden of the Middle March on the English side, professed indifference to these tidings, since the warriors did not linger on English soil—they were sailing north. All of Amaury’s enquiries to his northern neighbors had gone unanswered, which hinted to him that they knew
