queeneve
At that moment the girls hear hoof steps approaching. Frantically they
look for aplace to hide. "Queneve, quick help me inside that
building!" Hurry, put your arms around my my neck." Panting
from behind the doorway of the old delpitated wooden building, the
girls try to see the horsman as he enters the alley ans stops to
inspect the pool of blood in the road. "Matalina, Look!, it's
Asa, my friend from the village. God must be watching over us and and
I'm sure he has sent Asa to our rescue! Queneve calls out to Asa and
he rides over to them, please help us, we need to get to place
accross town, where we can stay and be safe for the night, my sister
is in real bad shape and needs a doctor. There's no way she can walk
or for me to carry her.
Asa agrees to take them to shelter and helps them on to his horse. But
Asa didn't tell them that a hundred Knights where hot on his trail.
For earlier he helped another maiden in distress, the Kings daughter,
Sarah.