NARRATOR

IN DUKE THESIO’S CAMP…

"Have you gotten anything out of that spy?" Thesio asked the messenger who returned on horseback.

He was stationed in an improvised camp, a bit far from the main camp controlled by his general.

"No, sir, not even under torture has he said anything useful," the man reported. Thesio frowned, sitting on the fallen trunk of a tree.

He would have liked to intimidate that man himself, but it wasn’t in his best interest to be in such a compromising place.

He knew Elliot