About this story
He brings you to Lady Norreys at an inn, where she warns that the rising will fail and offers a route that would carry the army away from Scotland and its supply lines. Samuel Johnson turns up with a cart of printer's proofs to hide you from a search. Then a government proclamation, found inside them, names Midwinter as the rising's secret betrayer.
How it opens
Cold rain followed you from the western coast into an England hostile to your prince.
Captain Maclean, ride behind me and ask no landlord whom he supports.
I wear no badge, name no master, and find meals in houses without signs.
The clans crossed the border expecting English friends to rise.
Friends rise slowly when gallows have been prepared in advance.
Your sealed list names gentlemen who promised both men and horses.