Chapter 71: An Apprentice Like Her
"You made the shot."
At only a few words, Irene was suddenly alert.
Indoor duties that week required her and her group of apprentices in the library after their midday meal and then in the armory towards the evening. With the rainy season coming for them, it was an opportune time for the apprentices and squires to get better acquainted with cleaning armor, weapons, and shields and learning how to preserve them even when it was wet outdoors.
With no further explanation, the apprentices who had been there the day the pile of goblins was found in the forest had been tasked to look through books in the library about monsters and see if there were ever any other strange occurrences such as that. The scent, the peculiar grey or black substance, monsters and humans alike being affected by it—the list went on.
However, the others had left by that point but Irene wasn’t all that hungry for supper so she remained in the library alone a while longer—at least until Sir Gunnar came to interrupt her.
She was immediately on edge.
"Sir?" she questioned, mostly unsure of what he meant.
"The shot on the day the ogre appeared," Sir Gunnar reiterated. "You made the shot. One of the squires cleaning the yard realized the dummies were still out there and cleaned them up for me. Did you realize you made the shot?"
"I did," she responded plainly, closing the book because it seemed that the conversation wasn’t likely to stop there.
Knowing the knight, she would probably be asked to go eat at least a little bit since he didn’t allow the apprentices to go without eating in case they needed to expend energy at an unusual time.
"Why?" he asked from where he stood in the threshold of the open library door.