King Of Fools.

King of Fools.

Leaving Ugli behind, his eyes gone wide as saucers, the woman, with nothing but a coat thrown over her nightclothes, kicked her heels into the horse’s flank.

“It is a mercy you slept in your armour.”

“What in the world is going on, all of a sudden?”

The chestnut horse bearing the two of them pawed once at the air with its forelegs, then began driving its hooves forward at a swift pace.

The sun, just beginning to push its head over the horizon, had stained the snowfield white in the dawn light, and the cold air...