"Do you think December is doing okay?" Bell looked at Obi and asked. Obi shrugged his shoulders.
"She is with her father. I doubt he will harm her."
"What if he makes her marry another man. What if someone else touches her? I cannot bear the thought of someone touching my girl."
"Then you had better hurry and get her back"
"Should we go talk to King Stephen now? He said he would be home around this time"
"That is your decision" Bell watched Andu come from within the shadows.
"Where have you been? I thought you left?"
"Never, I went to find my own way to free December. I wanted to know how the guards knew where we are."
"We are wanted, people. Anybody could have turned us in. Besides, they knew we were going to cross to Stough"
"Obi, how? How did they know? It occurred to me that
