May 1101—Jerusalem
May 1101—Jerusalem“We could join the Lombards and this new crusade,” Thierry Douglas suggested, his opinion of that strategy clear in his tone. “If we want to fight with peasants.”
The eight knights who had become friends, as well as comrades, sat in the tavern they favored and drank young red wine. They had each ridden to crusade and had met in Outremer, ultimately joining forces to fight together. Rolfe de Viandin liked to jest that his friends were rogues and angels, for it was true that their natures could not have been more varied.
Thierry and Luc Douglas were twins from the north of England, and Rolfe still found it uncanny how well they anticipated each other’s thoughts and movements. The sole difference between them was that Thierry’s eyes were green, a striki
