About this story
When a huge horse seized for debt turns on a fallen servant, you drive it off with a whip, then talk the Abbey's men out of shooting the animal and ride it to exhaustion yourself. The Abbey has you arrested anyway, and only Samkin Aylward, a franklin's son, will fight for your freedom, until Sir John Chandos arrives with word that King Edward is riding to Tilford.
How it opens
Waverley Abbey's bells rolled across fields once claimed by the diminished house of Loring.
Lady Ermyntrude LoringNigel, their lawsuit has taken acres enough; give the monks no fresh weapon.
You rode a rough colt toward Tilford while Abbey servants chased a great yellow horse below.
Franklin AylwardPommers has broken two halters and nearly killed my son since the debt seizure.
Franklin AylwardOne rope has caught him, but his forefeet have struck a servant into the mud.
Choose
Pull the wounded man clear while I turn Pommers from the wall.
Open the meadow gate and give Pommers a road away from the man.