Lord Kurn Part 2

"No one would ask you for charity, Lady, your price will be assured by the lord’s own son. Should you need to speak to him, you would only need to wait at the tree by the river at noon for him to take his daily ride." She looked at the man who seemed to be aging before his time and worn with worry and fear. She placed the money for her drink that she had finished and the meal that had yet to arrive on the table.

"I have ordered a plate that I must abandon due to a change in my schedule. See to it that my order is paid for and not wasted and I will talk to the son of your lord," she told him as she rose from the table, "You shall not know me again." He nodded consent as she left. He understood that she had paid for a meal she had no intention of eating herself and that he was to see to it that someone else did eat it. Although he did not understand why she would choose to do something like that he did not dare ask and