Twenty-Six
The Prince
Autumn 959 MC
It had been a long search. It had taken months to finally track him down, for Prince Henry was a young man on the move. After learning in Wincaster that he had gone west, she crossed the kingdom, all the way to Kingsford, only to find him departed; his destination unknown. She wintered there and then traversed back to the capital, to be informed he had travelled south. This game of cat and mouse continued as she chased him over half the kingdom, finally catching up with him near Eastwood, locating him at the Royal Estate that lay near the great northern city.
She rode up to the estate with the looming shadow of the Deerwood to the west. Its thick underbrush made the terrain all but impassable. To the east was the indistinct shape of the great mountai
