Chapter 19

When we arrived at the stables Chase quickly caught up with a horse that seemed to be very fast, he easily threw me on top of the animal and then climbed on top, he pressed me against him and made the animal start to run, we dashed out of the stable into the cold of the night, even after we got away from the estate you could see the brightness of the torches in the sky, the number of them scared me, and their annoyed shouts could be heard even at a distance, then the sound of swords cut the air, I shuddered when I looked back and saw that a battle between the duke's men and the heathens had begun.

" We must go back! There are too many of them, Daniel will die!"

" I'm not that lucky, princess."

I turned on the horse and elbowed him, or at least tried to, but he held my arm and the horse suddenly stopped, he neighed and reared up madly on his hind legs, with that movement we both fell off the horse, I would have been badly hurt had it not been for the commander holding me up and absor