-After 300,000 gold pieces, and 1/5 of Taverley's winter food supply were delivered to the Kinshra Fortress, A man walked out of the Fortress. He looked beaten, tired, starved and yet he had some form of kind spark in his eye, though his hair was matted with blood and his wounds made it hard; he walked with a straight back and his head held high. Arthur had been released from the hell that is the Kinshra fortress dungeons. He clutched his journal pages to his chest, though they were stained with 'ink' and from the blood that had poured from his partially cut left ear.
Upon entering Taverley and being welcomed warmly by the civilians whom Arthur had been defending when he was captured, Lord Harawood smiled and spoke politely as always to his people before he retired to his manor house. It was then the truth set in to Arthur, his freedom had cost him everything. 300,000 gold pieces was all his house had ever managed to obtain, and he felt far more than awkward when he realised the citizens had happily given up the 1/5 of the winter supply. But it made Arthur smile warmly, though Taverley may be one of the poorest vassals of Asgarnia, it had the most kindhearted people within the empire.-
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