"Are you coming, or no?" She calls from in front of you. Still looking up at the castle, you follow her. Suddenly you stop short, realizing that an arm is blocking your path. Looking around you notice that if the young woman hadn't held her arm out to stop you, you'd have gone falling into the clear moat below.

"Fosley! Cur er bun!" She yells out, and slowly the gate lowers, making a bridge over the moat. Picking up her dark purple skirts she steps up on the bridge and motions for you to follow again. Nodding you follow her through the gate and into the castle walls. Stepping through, you look around, an open area is in front of you, with two soldiers standing at the gates. Both guards bow deeply to the young woman who nods regally back to them.

Around you there appears to be training grounds, soldiers of all ages and sizes compete with eachother in different areas of fighting. Archery tournaments are in one corner, sword fighting in another. You pass men fighting with staffs and simple hand to hand.

As you start to wonder how big this army is, the young woman breaks in"We're just now getting our army built back up. The entire kingdom was overthrown by the rebels twenty years back, we've gotten most everything else put together, but the military is just now improving." 1