Dan watched the tree stump in surprise, as the blood began to vanish right in front of his eyes.
The tree stump is not even level, it's slanted. The blood vanished clean off as the drops spilled towards the lower edge.
He is too drunk and shocked to react.
Merilyn was still in shock of seeing him removing the pommels.
In fact, these glass pommels are a test that's given to both masters and knights. All they have to do was to retrieve the pommels, but they never came off the tree stump.
They were as tight as nails nailed into the wood. Neither the strongest man, nor the smartest mage could figure out any solution to the problem.
The glass pommels were old.
They were from a time before the tower itself. Far too many legends surround these glass pommels. One says they are nailed in by the Rose of the blue lake, who was the first druid queen of Harvest. In legend, the tree is her home, and this is her court.
