Lady Gwynn offers an anatomy lesson
Egelric found the door to his lord’s study cracked open, and he saw the emerald light of the green glass lamp within. He knocked.
“What now?” Alred called. “My elbow?”
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“I would say it’s been worse since Leofric has been here, though I hate to say it, since I am happy to see the man,” Alred sighed.
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“Squire!”
Egelric and his horse both jumped, startled by the voice calling out from a shadowy corner of the King’s stable.
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“Beloved, thy face is like this morning’s sun: obscured by clouds,” Alred said softly as he came down the hall and spied Gunnilda sitting at her kitchen table.
“Oh!” Gunnilda chuckled. “Where did Your Grace come from?”
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“There you are!” Matilda called from her bed as her husband came into the room, unbuckling his belt. “I’ve been waiting.”
“Kind of you, my dear.” He hung up his belt and pulled his tunic off over his head. “I do believe that we are making progress with that man. I got him to laugh twice.”
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