CHAPTER NINETEEN
THE WONDERFUL WARM glow that wrapped around me whenever I was near Walker remained with me during the day. Geoff went down after two runs, but didn’t get seriously hurt. Vandal defeated his opponent in all three runs, moving up to joust against the winner of the following joust. Butcher and Farrell tied twice, finally going to a third tie-breaking match, which Farrell won, only to be defeated by his next opponent.
It was a glow heightened by the excitement of the last day of competition. The Faire was at capacity crowds, each jousting run getting the entire audience on their feet yelling and screaming for their favorites. Everywhere we went there were people, kids with snow cones, babies in strollers, dogs, a couple of cats, parrots, and even one goat. It was wall-to-wal
