Introducing: Crispin

Curtis meets Crispin and is drafted into his army

Some hours later I stumbled through the Sheriff’s doorway. The Office

was on the top floor of some tavern and I was still dazed from the

beating I had received in his brief stay in prison to recognize the

place, though I thought that it might be the Alley Cat Inn. The 

Sheriff was looking out the window into the street below and some kind

of lord was sitting at his desk . The sheriff turned to look at me and

the Lord looked up from his paper. Behind the Lord was a large shelf of

books, most having to do with crime a punishment. Finally the Lord

broke the silence saying “ Hello Curtis, How are you enjoying London?”

I grimaced “I have been enjoying it for eighteen years”.

The Lord smiled

“Sure you have curtis. I know better” I glared at him “ I am Lord

Crispin of Wales and I am in need of one-hundred archers”

“I am sorry my Lord but I possess no men of my own to give”            The Lord

smiled and replied

“I would think not , as you are but a lowly peasant. No, you will not

give me one hundred archers , but find me them”

I smiled “ then hang me from the gallows now, because I refuse to

become the recruiter of some Welsh Lord. There’s a couple hundred of

em’ if you didn’t already know.”

The lord lost his smile and turned upon me “ I knew your father Curtis,

a gallant man he was, fought alongside me at the siege of Shardnel.”

I smiled “You know nothing of my father!”

Lord Crispin dismissed it with a wave of his hand. “ The point is ,

Curtis, you can hang in two days or help me find the men I need and

escape the war altogether, the choice is yours boy” I chose life.

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[ScarlettTheDreamer]

It is shaping up quite well. Though you could describe the lord's looks and features. And may be the place too.