Gerald nodded his head, “Aye, Highness, I’ll see that it’s taken care of.”
“Beverly,” continued Anna, “hold your knights here and don’t march them until you see the lead columns coming up behind us, that’ll give us a better idea of how they’re doing. We shall have to match our progress to the rest of the army, or we’ll be dangerously exposed.”
They all nodded their understanding and then went their separate ways.
Beverly waited with her knights all through the long morning, but the column failed to appear. She conducted some drills to keep their minds occupied, but still, no sign came of the rest of the army. It was as if this small band of knights had been abandoned. Finally, in the early afternoon, she saw a distant dust cloud, the telltale sign of an army on the move. It took quite a
