"It's dangerous to go out alone at night. It's best to go back early." Gareth said, "do you want me to help you?"
"No... no need." The girl said quickly. She was trembling as she spoke, but her body quickly rolled out of the manger. Her eyes involuntarily glanced at the woman lying on the haystack, as if hesitating whether to take it or not take her away together.
Just when she decided to leave first, the door was opened from the outside again. Jock went and came back - he had left his sword in the stable. However, there was an unknown woman standing in front of him. He looked in and saw that Gareth was there and the widow of the Todd family was also there.
So where did this woman come from?
"Who is she?" Jock asked.
The girl herself wanted to give a satisfactory answer.
"She is another one who offered herself," Gareth answered for her. "She secretly followed Mary and want to take man from her"
"Really?" Jock glanced at the woman in front of him suspiciously, especially focusing on her slightly rising breasts. This woman looked like an inocent virgin.
"Ah...that's right." The girl tried her best to straighten her chest.
"Otherwise, why would she come here in the middle of the night?" Gareth put his hand on the girl's shoulder, making the girl flinch. The other hand handed over Jock's long sword.
"I have already told her not tonight, and also warned her to keep her mouth shut, and leave this woman to me. You go back first, if the two of us are gone for too long , it's not easy to explain."
Somehow, there was some convincing power in the young man's words. Jock took the sword and looked at the girl carefully before leaving again.
"Congratulations," Gareth let go of her shoulders and said lightly, "you almost died just now."
The girl opened her mouth and finally asked: "Death?...Why?"
"You caught a knight having an affair with someone, and he wanted to kill you to silence you. Isn't it natural?"
The girl became visibly panicked and asked anxiously: "But... you are knight... right?"
"Knights are not all good people. He remembers your face. With a little investigation, you will be exposed soon."
Gareth turned his head and looked at her with a smile, "For a well-trained knight, making a woman disappear silently is as easy as killing a rabbit. You should understand, right?"
No, she doesn't understand at all.
The girl seemed to want to grab the knight's sleeve, but she didn't dare touch him. She tried her best to put a stiff and flattering smile on his face and looked at him hopefully: "But… you are still an upright and kind person, you wouldn't do this, would you help me?"
She must have rarely begged others.
The gentleman smiled and asked, "Do you think I am a kind and upright person?"
The girl racked her brain to find a reason: "Of course... Of course you are upright and kind. You just told me to leave quickly. It was you who... after witnessing the atrocities of another knight, you protected two women. "
She's a little smarter than she looks. Gareth thought. He suddenly had a more interesting idea.
"If I were you, I would go back, pack my things right now, and run away as fast as possible. Do you know how to ride a horse?"
"know a little..."
"It's not enough to know a little bit. The horses of the Knights are all good horses blessed by the Holy Light. If you have half-assed riding skills, they will catch up with you and kill you in less than half a day."
"So what do you think I should do..."
"As a knight, I naturally cannot watch an innocent girl die in vain." Gareth said. He took the girl's hand and assured her sincerely, "I will protect you."
The sun had set an hour ago, and a horse rushed out of the stables of the Knights' Camp.
The girl sat on the horse facing Gareth , holding tightly to the clothes of the person facing her, for fear of falling. She did not forget to shout: "There is another person..."
Mary was still lying unconscious in the stable.
"It doesn't matter, someone will find her."
The guard standing guard at the gate of the knight camp was about to doze off, when suddenly he saw a white horse rushing through the gate like an arrow from the string, clattering onto the street, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
"Did something important happen?" The guard was a little confused, looking at the street from a distance, thinking to himself, the horses in the Holy City are really fast.
The horses protected by the Holy Light ran as light as the wind, but the people sitting on the horses didn't feel that way. Their internal organs were about to be pushed out.
"I...I want to go home...pack my things..." the girl said.
"I know."
Gareth replied, tightening the reins and the horse stopped steadily, right in front of her home.
The girl got off the high horse and almost tripped because of her trembling legs. She was was supported by a knight on horseback.
"How do you know I live here?" the girl asked.
"I have a very good memory. I will never forget something I have seen once." The knight said condescendingly, "I also know that you are Mary's niece."
The girl opened her mouth, but finally turned around and ran into her home. She rummaged through the boxes and packed them in a hurry, and ran out again with a big package in her arms.
Standing in front of the horse, she hesitated again: "I suddenly felt...is it...?"
——Is there something wrong?
Gareth didn't give her a chance to hesitate. He stretched out his hand and lifted the person onto the horse, as easily as lifting a rabbit. The horse galloped again, towards the south.
"I don't know your name yet."
"My name is Aisina."
"Aisina" The girl replied.
"A very tacky name." Gareth said.
This is indeed a common name. Two or three out of ten baby girls will always be called this name, which means God's oath. All believers love to give their daughters this name.
They were sitting by the campfire. Aisina's legs were cramping. Tonight was a very unlucky night. As the saying goes: curiosity kills the cat, and it almost killed herself.
"Don't you ask me what my name is?" Gareth said again.
"Then - what's your name?"
"My name is Gareth ."
"Emm"
The firelight jumped, illuminating the freckles on the bridge of the girl's nose. She rubbed her legs, feeling that the knight in front of her was a very dangerous guy.
She couldn't say she was deceived - no, she was probably deceived.
She had only seen two knights at close range, both of whom were far from the so-called integrity. The worst part is that her life is still in this man's hands.
Yesterday evening, she was just worried about her aunt Mary, so she secretly followed her out to check. Unexpectedly, she encountered something she shouldn't have seen, and had to hide in the smelly manger.
Who knows that her aunt will run into the knight camp and have an affair with the knight.
Things weren't too bad so far. She only had to endure it for an hour or two before she could go back to change clothes and take a shower. But now, somehow, she was in a strange wilderness, sleeping in the wild with a knight she didn't know.
The knight named Gareth took her on horseback for a whole day. The skin on the inner thighs was so worn that she couldn't stand when she got off the horse.