nurse, - I’ll tell Ilma that you didn’t obey me!

- Oh, you little sneak! - the warrior stroked the girl's hand, - Thank you.

“You are still very weak, Mrs. Tilla,” Feira wiped the sweat from her forehead, “Sleep until the princess returns.”

“So she hasn't returned yet,” Tilla thought, “I'm starting to get worried.”

“No need to worry, madam,” Feira assured her firmly, “Mrs. Misa and her girlfriend rode with the princess.”

“Good,” Tilla closed her eyes and dozed off.

It was a quiet warm evening. In the darkened sky, one after another, the stars were lit. Ilma sat down closer to the fire and looked at her friend.

- How do you feel? - She asked, gently touching the girl on the shoulder, - Rana does not bother?

“I’ll get better soon with the cares of our little Feira,” Tilla smiled.

“I have long wanted to ask you,” the princess looked away.

“I even know about what,” a sly smile began to play on the girl’s pale lips.

“Then tell me,” asked Ilma.

Tilla closed her eyes and slowly began to tell:

“When, suddenly, soldiers of Geert, brother of Milard, attacked us from the forest, I realized that we had fallen into a grave trap. My sisters and I tried to block their path so that you could go as far as possible. Seventeen girls died, the rest scattered around. I was knocked off my horse and lost consciousness.

When I came to, it was already completely dark. Misa with the surviving sisters sought me out and helped me hide in a hollow. She said that Uri, having collected the remnants of his troops, rushed into the last attack. Almost all died, but Girt also received a serious wound, from which he soon died.

Returning to the camp was pointless. Milard's soldiers were in full swing there. Lund and his people nibbled them great, but they themselves also died. We went to the river. There is where to hide from prying eyes. Horses had to quit. Too noticeable. We carried the lost sisters from the battlefield and buried them according to our customs.

After sitting there for a couple of days, we decided to find you. But which way to go, I did not know. But I reasoned like this: if you are saved, we will soon hear about you. If you die, then look no one. So, the right thing - to continue the fight against the tyrant. But he was still strong. And I so wanted to repay this rascal! But it takes time.

Then we decided to secretly penetrate the city and wait for the convenient case for us. And where can you hide in the city?

“In the slums,” said Ilma.

- Right! But their orders reign there, and their kings rule. And the queen.

- Eva? - anxiously asked the princess.

“We met by chance,” Tilla continued, “Eva first decided that we were encroaching on her rights.” But after mutual explanations, we decided to act together.

Eva has been very helpful to us. She not only knows the city very well, but all of its underground passages, more like a maze. The girl hid us in the slums, led the healers who healed the girls, fed and gave us drink.

One day, she ran into the shack where we lived and said she saw Milard leading you through the city. She accidentally saw this procession, when she traded in the streets with her bandits. Eva suggested that we contact the man at Milard Castle, who transmitted the information to Uri. So we learned that you are being held in a deaf dungeon, where it is impossible to get to, and that they are going to execute soon.

It was then that we began to prepare your release. The day before the execution, we replaced several soldiers from the personal guard of Milard with our own people. It was not difficult to do this. They poured poison into the wine, and when they fell on, dragged them down the drain, and Eva's guys settled in the barracks.

“So that's why the guards didn't move when they shot the executioner, and you started fighting Milard!” - Ilma guessed, - And I thought that the brave soldiers put in their pants, the girls were scared.

“If you hadn’t rushed to save me,” Tilla grinned, “They would have done it.” Ask this reptile from crossbows.

- And those two? Well, who rushed to defend their benefactor?

“I don't know where they came from,” the girl explained, smiling guiltily, “But my sisters quickly realized and finished them off.”

“Tilla,” the princess moved closer to her friend, “And who killed Terry?”

“Terry killed Eva,” the girl replied without blinking, “She lured him out of the castle, promising to spend the night with him, and killed him.” And to annoy Milard, she handed him a note. Unfortunately, one slave suffered because of this.

- Yes, I know, - Ilma sighed, - And tell me, who, nevertheless, passed on the information to Uri, and then to you?

“I don't know her name,” Tilla admitted, “Do you remember the little thin girl you saved from that red-haired girl?”

“She was identified by Uri in the kitchen,” the princess was surprised by her own memory.

- So much for the answer! - Tilla laughed, - This girl heard everything, remembered everything, and then through one soldier sent the information first to Uri, and then to us. She told about your execution.

“Where is she now?” - the princess's voice began to shake, she seemed about to cry.

“She went with this soldier to his village,” said Tilla, “and asked me to give you my regards.”

“May the Gods give her happiness,” not stopping, Ilma shed tears, but quickly wiped away tears, “You can’t cry a princess.”

- Princess, - Tilla took the girl by the hand, - And now you tell me what happened to you.

And Ilma long told how she came to the nomads, how she lived with them for the winter, how she cleaned and dried fish, was engaged in housekeeping. She told how she got into a fool, yielding to a trick with a ring, how she was kidnapped and taken back to the city.

Feira, who was sitting nearby, was not silent either. She gave her explanations, then told how she set off on a long journey in search of a friend.

The girls talked almost all night. Noticing that a new dawn was breaking out outside the windows, they calmed down and went to sleep. What will bring them a new day ?!

YES KEEP THEIR GODS!

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