Arkin sprang up when Adela entered his room at the infirmary.
Having grown tired of the collective punishments imposed on their platoon, three courageous members approached Adela and beseeched her to reason with Sir Arkin, their Leader — her knight kept disobeying Baron Gustav's direct orders to forgo duties, and the rest of the platoon was caught between two fires. Regardless of the order they followed, they kept getting punished for it.
It made her feel all the more guilty, she wished she never dragged Arkin along with her to the forest. Is it too late to put that day behind them and forget it ever happened?
The corners of his lips went down, "Is my lady here to see me…" His eyes wandered to find the other man lying asleep on the bed across from him, "Or that boy over there…"
