Dame Sara Illou, Knight of the Land, grabbed her plate of food from the makeshift kitchen and took it into the barracks to eat. The food was not exactly gourmet but then again in a barracks kitchen it very rarely was. However, as she sat down to eat she realised it was perfectly edible and that was the most important thing.
She had a long day ahead of her. For you see, nothing could be done about the gryphons as long as they were hiding somewhere unknown in the mountains. So she had set herself a new task: to discover their location. Perhaps if it was known where they were striking from then the soldiers could do something about it.
She was satisfied with her decision and resolved to leave as soon as possible. As she ate however she realised she had to make a couple of stops before she set off. The first was to prepare her horse for the journey and to make sure that she had enough supplies. It would do not good if she ran out of food after only one day in the wilderness.
The most important stop of all, however, was to call in on the lieutenant who commanded these soldiers.
For you see, Sara had woken up horny as she always did. She knew that a good deep pounding would get her day off to the best possible start, and she also knew that Lieutenant Martin Indor was the man for the job. He had proven that the night before. Even better, he had asked her to call in on him again in the morning for more of the same if she so wished.
However she was just finishing her meal when she caught sight of the lieutenant entering the kitchen with two of his officers, animatedly discussing some topic of importance. He looked very handsome in his uniform and the fact that Sara knew what a sexy and muscular body he had beneath it set her blood aflame. Still, she was not going to disturb him when he was busy so as she cleared away her plate she decided to prepare herself for the journey first. She could call in on Martin just before she left.
With that in mind she gathered up most of her things from the small room that she had slept in the night before. She left her armour behind, however, as she was still wearing her comfortable clothing and was not prepared to change into her armour when she knew she wanted to get naked soon. Then she headed outside to her horse, a white mare named Snowglide.
She got her steed ready then went in search of supplies. Between the local shop and the barracks quartermaster she soon had enough food and other basics to last her for at least a few days in the wilderness, longer if she was frugal or was able to find people to stay with on the way.
As Sara was attaching these supplies to Snowglide a young woman wearing chainmail armour marched past and caught her attention. Sara could not help but check her out as she walked by.
The unknown woman had long red hair tied back in a ponytail and lovely green eyes. She was likely in her late-twenties and stood very slightly shorter than Sara at about 5'9". Whatsmore, it was very obvious even beneath her armour that she possessed a slender and gorgeous body, with a tight stomach and big tits.
That armour was practical but quite impressive, with plenty of dyed green leather and a gryphon crest revealing her to be of one of the minor noble houses in the queendom. And not just any noble house - she was of House Falai, the nobles who many centuries ago had been some of the most impressive gryphon-riders in the queendom.
As she passed, Sara guessed that the woman must be the knight errant that Martin had told her about the evening before. He had given the indication that she was constantly pestering him - Sara wondered if she were off to do the same this morning.
She watched as the woman entered the barracks, then she returned to her work and finished preparing Snowglide. Soon her horse was ready to depart and Sara had one more stop to make. She hoped that Martin was not busy and had a little while to spare.
Sara walked into the barracks and made her way to Martin's door, which was firmly shut. Inside she could hear raised voices though she could not work out what they were saying. She raised a hand and knocked but received no response. Realising that the people on the other side of the door were shouting too loudly to possibly hear her, she opened the door anyway and stepped inside.
Martin was standing there as handsome and proud as always. And standing across the table from him, worked up and shouting was the redhead that Sara had guessed was the knight errant.
Sara's guess was proven correct a few seconds later when Martin noticed that she had entered and decided to make an introduction.
"Ah, Dame Sara, good morning. Yesterday you had not met Sophie Maguire, Knight Errant. Allow me to introduce you." He gestured between Sara and the young woman. "Sophie, this is Dame Sara Illou, a Knight of the Land."
Sophie turned to Sara and bowed, her beautiful face lit up in a smile. She seemed genuinely honoured to meet Sara and Sara was flattered by that.
"Nice to meet you, Sophie," Sara said.
"The honour is all mine, dame knight," the beautiful knight errant replied. "I have heard tales of your deeds. Of your wondrous journey to reclaim your family's ancient heirloom."
Sara smiled. It did not particularly surprise her that Sophie knew who she was. When Sara had been a knight errant she had learned the names and histories of many of the Knights of the Land in order to study what they had done so that she could follow suit. It seemed that Sophie was the same.
"So, what is the argument about?" Sara said with a smile, trying to lighten the mood.
Sophie's face darkened somewhat and she pointed animatedly at Martin. "The lieutenant will not let his soldiers search the mountains for the source of the gryphon attacks!"
