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Dahan and the
Royal Guards reached Castle Oak. It wasn't a huge building but it lies on a
small hill with steep walls surrounded by a bigger gutter. The main gate was amazing, as they rode
through the bridge the lifted irongates were looking at them threatening. The
inner yard was full of man-at-arms, soldiers, bowmen and a lot of instrumnets
of war. Training dummies in plate mails, targets for the bow and crossbow. As
they got through the gatehouse the saw the 20 meter tall thick walls running on
both sides interspersed by oval towers. The wall ends at the cytadel castle. Around
10 stores high fortress with at least 30 towers and hundreds of portholes. No
man could breach it so far not even in the 200 year wars. Castle Oak was one of
the strongest forts in the realm while it was small it was also on a main
strategic point next to an important trade route. Just at the legs of the Great
Mouth mountains where are a lot of gold and iron mines and at the beginning of
the fertile pastures providing the main part of the food for the rest of the
country.
As Dahan and
the captain stopped their horses a younger man stopped the training and ran to
greet his lord. He was a well builded warrior. Beside his young age he already
have some battle scars on his arms and torso. Dahan made him go with a single
turn of his head. The young man noticed his will and left immediately. The
captain not really made any interest about the youngster. The lord made some
quick orders to hostel the Royal Guards. Than he invited the captain to his
fort to dine and talk with him.
The night
have fallen down to the castle and in the tavern the soldiers and the Royal
Guard members chated and drunked. As they got drunker and drunker some Guards
decided to show the "lowbie" soldiers what is it that made them a
Royal Guard. They started to grab the barmaids, push and pull random peolple
and started to tussle and fight with the locals as if they were the kings of
the hill for tonight. The youngster that greeted his lord on his arrival
smashed a beer ceg on a Guards head to get him off a barmaid. The whole tavern
went freeze as the Guard slowly rolled down to the floor. The barmaid rant away
crying badly. The other drunk Guards gathered around the young man. The local
soldiers stood the youngster side and the air was still frozen as the two
groups were to start a rumble. The tallest and thickest Guard pulled his sword.
The youngster jumped to the tall's throat immediately as thunder do the flash
and brought him to the ground while he kicked the sword out of his hand. The
other Guards jumped on them as well as the other soldiers. After a few minutes
of fighting the castle's guards on duty rushed into the tavern to split the
fighting parties.
- STOP you freaking bastards STOP if I told
you!! - the sergeant shouted - Get
off that poor bastard you dumb - and he smashed a Royal Guard's head wit
his spear. Slowly the tavern silenced as the guards made order. The youngster
was still strangling the thick Guard but the sergenat spot his spear onto his neck
saying - Urak! I told you to let him go!
It's not the time. ...
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