บท 676: Spear Hero

The trip itself, from my perspective, was uneventful. There were attacks, the most notable being from carnivorous frogs with sunken sides. Perhaps I'll come back to why that's important, but with your love of action, perhaps not as well.

Around the necks of most of my fellow travelers were placed collars of iron, to which were affixed poles of sturdy oak. Me, they just used a capture pole on, also around the neck.

A capture pole is a hollow pole through which is run a loop of leather, long enough that it can be tightened from the other side. They are often used to control animals, sometimes small children. I didn't bother asking which the guards regarded us as.

We were not taken to the palace proper, with its expansive dungeons. Us, they took to a keep behind the extensive garden. No, not through the garden. There was enough room between the edge of the plant beds and the woods to march us around.