Book One: Chapter Three
A young man in a dark gray tunic with greasy black hair and a large nose led a white horse down a dirt path. He looked down the trail with small dark eyes, past the wheat field to the large manor house. He finally reached the outside of the home in front of two large doors. He went to the left side where there was a smaller door inset into the larger one. He knocked on the outside of the thick wood several times with a spiral bronze door knocker. The door opened and a short plain looking man in a long tunic with dark brown hair peered from the door with dark eyes. "Hello, who art thou and what business dost thou have at Meikell Manor?" he said. "I am Deikuneist, son of Etae the Tailor. I come from Kirsgar with a mended dress for the daughter of the Viscount." "I will announce thee. Wait here." The gangly young man nodded, while the other went back through the door and closed it. After a minute the door opened again. "Come inside." He...