The Return - Part 11

"Quite right, Lady Blackthorn. The Sergeant is just ordering his troops now as we speak," Verdant said, purposefully calling her by title, so that the Sergeant would know there were two members of the high nobility present.

"All troops! Form a ring around the carriages!" The Sergeant said.

There weren't an awful lot of them, as far as Oliver was concerned. But twenty or so soldiers were better than none of them, at least when it came to them parting the crowd. As to how safe he felt, with the soldiers walking so close to the doors of Harmon's carriage, it was hard to say, but he managed to at least keep his sword from lashing out, even if he was focusing his attention with razor precision.