Citizens ran to their homes and barred windows and doors, the courtyard emptying. Once inside, most rushed to their upper windows, leaving them open just a c***k, to look out over the square, and to hold bows and arrows at the ready. Every last Silesian man, woman, and child, Gwen knew, was prepared to join in and fight to the death here.
Her heart flooded with relief as Kendrick rode up beside her, he and Atme handing the sick girls to their mother, who embraced them with tears of joy, sobbing. She grabbed Kendrick's leg.
"Thank you," she said. "I will never be able to repay you.”
Gwendolyn and Kendrick dismounted and embraced.
“You’re alive,” she said over his shoulder, so happy, and wishing for Thor to have the same fate, too. “And you saved their lives.”
Kendrick smiled.
"There a
