‘Was Lady Sarah aware of her enlisted role when she insisted on three days of preparations necessary for the princess’s wardrobe to be readied?’ asked the king.
‘If Lady Sarah had her suspicions, she kept it to herself,’ said the princess.
‘The valley tribesmen came down from the depths of the wooded valley to meet the knights and alerted them to the presence of Ossaian soldiers concealed on the low slope of the forested hillside just above the valley road, gathering boulders and making preparations to cause a rockfall,’ said Sir Hugo. ‘The knights scouted the enemy camps and sent report of their discovery back to the capital and received orders to allow the Ossaian soldiers to continue their preparations undisturbed, but to observe them from a higher concealed position on the hillside o
