Excerpts from the journal of Archibald Douglas
24th of August, 1306
On returning to Kildrummy there was no one left alive. I found Emmeline, poor Emmeline slumped up against the castle wall. Her throat was slit.
Alvar was on the ground with an arrow sticking through his eye. The children were the last to be discovered. The English bastards had strung them up by their necks and hung them from a tree. But there was one noose that was unaccounted for.
I found Sorcha bleeding in the kitchen. Her arm had been severely wounded, and she was hardly alive. Sorcha had watched from the archway as her younger siblings had been killed one by one, their necks breaking as their bodies dropped from the tree. I found out later that evening that the English had not found her because she had woken up ins
