Sabines ride.

Sabine rode as fast as her horse would carry her heading back to the capitol. As she lowered her frame in the saddle for less air resistance she thought to her self.

This Queen was a strange woman. Sabine had come to talia intent on taking the crown but this woman Arerto had bested her in a fight. Sabine had never lost a fight in her twenty years carrying a sword in fact she had beaten men twice the size of Arerto. Arerto was a fireball and clearly she took no prisoners but Sabine had been spared. On top of that Arerto never seemed to treat her as a Subordinate but more of an equal. Then there was the new nightly nightcaps could Arerto be having feelings for her.

Her train of thought was interrupted as she looked up and in the distance she saw dust. She slowed her horse to a slower pace as the dust cloud grew nearer and nearer. Over a rise in the road she saw a column of troops being led Colonel Mathias. She pulled up in beside him and explained the situation and asked why they were on the road. Mathias told her that the Queen had ordered the reinforcements before leaving the city. Her intent was not to win a battle but to hold the enemy long enough for the reinforcements to arrive. To this end the foot troops had been loaded in to wagons to keep up with the cavalry.

Sabine said she would ride ahead and inform the Queen that help was on the way but she would not get there before battle had been joined. Mathias wished her god speed as she got a fresh horse and galloped back towards Myposa.