Monday, February 02, 2015

Exile's End: Day 28

Word Count: 168,073

Summary of Events:
Chapter 55:
As the Iøsenräl journeyed Thårijn noticed a clearing and went to investigate it. He found it was a Förstenräl military outpost and ended up duelling with one of the Förstenräl soldiers before leading the people around it and cantering beyond it for a long ways.
Chapter 56:
The next day Thårijn decided the people should walk in the river so as to not leave any tracks, which Æliyäu was slightly concerned with due to the coldness of the water and prayed about. At lunchtime it was discovered that the water was warm, and it was only warm around where they were in the water. Once they stopped for the night everyone took advantage of the warm water and bathed in it.

Excerpt of the Day:
"The soldier returned with a horse, it was a fairly tall horse — a good match for against Græshädå — that was brightly chestnut coloured. The challenging soldier swung up into the saddle with ease and aligned his horse so that he would be fighting on his on side, and Thårijn's off.
Græshädå bent his nose to the other horse in greeting and Thårijn watched his stallion carefully. Græshädå stretched out his neck, his nostrils flaring, and went to make a step forward, but Thårijn gave a short jerk on the reins and Græshädå stopped. It was a mare, and exactly the kind of mare Græshädå wanted to see right about now. Fool.
A blow stunned Thårijn's shield-arm, but Thårijn turned and focused on the soldier and blocking the blows that the soldier threw at him — which wasn't too hard, being as his shield was longer than the full length of the Förstenräl's sword.
After a few blows were landed on his shield Thårijn swung his blade around and met the Förstenräl's blade in loud clashes. Thårijn made sure he never instigated a blow, he only defended against the blows brought against him — this he did because his challenger bore no shield, and his armour Thårijn was sure was quite light.
The soldier parried a thrust against Græshädå, but Thårijn blocked it with his shield and then shoved against the soldier with his shield, seeing if maybe he couldn't unseat his opponent from his saddle.
It seemed that the Förstenräl soldier realized what Thårijn had attempted to do and took it as an insult, as he swung his sword with great ferocity against Thårijn's shield until Thårijn heard a metallic sound he'd only heard once before: in his duel with the Förstenräl soldier in the Møkbæsted square after having fallen from Græshädå. The sword had broken.
"Bring me another sword!" the soldier screamed. "I shall send this fool to his grave before the night is through!"
Græshädå swung his hindquarters around so that Thårijn and the soldier were abreast, both now technically on their on sides, then Græshädå took a couple of steps back, Thårijn reached forward and jerked on Græshädå's chain, and then startled as his stallion reared.
Flailing his forelegs, Græshädå landed a blow against the Förstenräl's head causing him to topple and hang in a position that was surely not in the least comfortable. Græshädå came back down and took a step back again.
Thårijn gave another jerk on the chain, which elicited a buck from his stallion, and from the sounds of things Græshädå had hit some more soldiers. This wasn't exactly a good thing going on here.
Græshädå turned and went to do as he so pleased with the mare, but Thårijn drove his heals into his stallion's sides, bringing another rear. When Græshädå came down again Thårijn repeated the action, pulling on the right rein and turning Græshädå away from the mare and his stallion charged forward."

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