![]() “Didn’t mean to go on and on,” he mumbled, and urged his horse forward again.” Sir Karel used to say that…” He realized the others were regarding him curiously and he flushed. And even if you did, how would you get it across? It’s just not feasible. You’d never get all that down cliffs like those. “But an army needs equipment-heavy weapons, supply wagons, provisions, tents, spare weapons and blacksmith’s equipment to repair them. Although the longer it took, the more chance word would get out about what you were doing. It would take months, but you could manage it. Given enough time, you could get them down and across. “But surely, if he had enough time…?” he began, but Horace shook his head again, more decisively this time. Apparently, Horace’s learning curve in the past seven or eight months had gone beyond his mere skill with the sword. This was a side of Horace that was new to him. To attack Araluen, he’ll need an army-and he wouldn’t get an army down those cliffs and across with a few ladders and rope bridges.” Will regarded him with interest. ![]() He wouldn’t have needed more than five hundred men for that and they could travel light. “The attack on Celtica was more of a raid than an invasion. ![]() “It’s a different situation,” he said finally. ![]()
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