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Her eyes popped open
He offered her a cold, calculating smile "You don’t appear happy to see ht ere getting along so faine you wonder how I reached you so easily Through the old sewer pipes, where we’re going now Do you mind?" He yanked her froh heht hirowled low, "If you fight me, I’ll knock you out Your choice"
She stilled her efforts, knowing she could do nothing if she was dead to the world, and he could easily kill her soed her down the hallway until they came to a door He jerked it open and forced her inside, then shut the door The room was a tiny water closet, never used, from the looks of it Boards had been pulled free fro more than a box, with a couple of boards nailed to the top of it to form a toilet hole Or that had been at one time She smelled the faint odor of mold and mustiness
"Hasn’t anyone told you about the Welsh princess Nest, a for Henry I? A prince from her homeland, a second cousin, Owain, learned how she’d been enslaved by the robber chief Gerald of Windsor Owain sought to dine with her and was so struck by her beauty that he was determined to have her for his own and free her frooes that he and fifteen of his ly with him to protect her husband and children They, her husband and children, h a toilet hole very much like this one Only theirs had been in use This hasn’t been used for several centuries You can count yourself fortunate Can you i e pipes underneath the castle while his as taken away?
"Just a quick slide down the pipe and you will be where I want you to be," he added
Stuck beneath the bowels of the castle, she feared But someone could still rescue her, she hoped
He lifted her and dropped her through the toilet hole Her heart skipped beats as she slid through the pipe, fearing she’d be deep in the bowels of the castle with no way to get out for hours What she didn’t expect was to feel the chilly outdoor sea air just before she landed on the rocks below the seawall, the gagher frantic screams
The Irish wolfhounds barked in the distance, excited, wanting to join the men in their search out front But it sounded like they had been confined to the kennels Which was understandable Though wolfhounds were named such because they had killed wolves in the distant past, she doubted they would do well against a pack of wolves
The chilling rain drenched her, soaking through her sweater and her jeans
Oh…id sea, and with her hands tied, she would drown right away This was bad, but she thought she still had a fighting chance as she squir to loosen the rope that bound her
Archibald landed beside her before she could scra it difficult to maneuver, the rocks even slipperier than before with the rain and wind pelting them at a slant The whitecapped waves stood out in contrast to the black water, forcefully crashing against the moss-covered boulders
"That wasn’t so bad, was it? Before the inhabitants cared anything about conservation or sanitation, they just let it all du her to her feet "But they removed the section of pipe that actually fed into the water, so these now end on the rocks Your father showed the the castle in that manner Other cases exist where an enemy force breached a castle in such a way Only ould ever do such a thing today? Eh?"