The Standard Bearer, Part 3

The Standard Bearer and her loyal Companion returned home. Their friends had held the keep in their absence, and the influence of the keep had attracted more people. A village grew up around the keep, but the Standard Bearer made sure that people knew for whom the keep was kept.

There was a rumbling among the people of the town. They understood the Standard Bearer, but they weren't sure of this foreign king and queen in the tumbled down castle.

There were messages from the King and Queen. At first, the Standard Bearer received messages about her duty, and what a terrible and disloyal subject she was, what an ungrateful wretch to those who had given her everything in the world. Then there were the sad letters from the Queen, wondering how anything would be managed without the Standard Bearer at the castle. And angry letters. And cajoling letters.

But the Standard Bearer crumpled all the letters in her gauntlet.

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