The logs

On the next day, Fiona and I, are leaving the house, both of us are going to our horses, who are at the stable, we have built two weeks ago thanks to some good workers from this neighborhood. Today we are going to the Palace, but not to work. Today, Fiona and I are going to do a knight quest.

This kind of "task" is made specifically for knights, for any type of knight. the knight who can do enough quests, he will advance in rank, and get a much bigger salary. This has been implemented recently. For now, I am at the Level 1 Squire, which is not much for the things I have been going through in my first years of squires, while Fiona, is at Level 24 Knight.

"So, Judah," says Fiona while we were using the horses to arrive much faster at the palace. "Have you been thinking what would you do in the future?"

"Um. I will most likely remain a knight." I say to Fiona. "This job is hard, but is very rewarding, not only on money but also on respect."

"Good. You have great potential. And I would like to know, would you remain a member of the Animal Assassins?"

"We are in this together, right? If you go, then I will go…" then something hit me. "Wait! Are you planning to leave the guild?"

"No. I am not, Judah. I will stay. But would you mind not talking about that outside of our home, or on the street?"

"Oh. Sorry."

And we continued our small journey to the Royal Palace.

After a few moments as we got there. Fiona and I are changing our peasant's clothes into armor, as we always do when we work as knights, we prepare our horses for the next mission, and before we would be able to leave, I asked Fiona.

"So… What mission we got?"

"Mission? Oh, right!" she responded and left the horses there with me, while she goes into the palace to take a knight mission from the board put on the walls of the Royal Palace.

Fiona stood at that Palace for a few moments, and when she came, back, she got on her hand two parchments with knight quests. She looks at them and then she asks me.

"Are you ready for moving logs?"

"Logs?" I ask as she goes on her horse, and she got at it. "That is our task for today."

"Yeah. Just moving simple logs from the forest to the nearest lumber mill. Not so difficult."

"I see," I respond. "But what is the second parchment?"

"It is the second mission, which it will be done later after we finish the first task."

"Aha. I see."

We are leaving the Royal Palace and heading to the area where the logs need to be moved to a lumber Mill. This sounds like a task that not a knight should be doing, but, the tasks are weird sometimes. They seem pretty easy to be done, even by a peasant who has no experience in this domain can do it, but I am not complaining since even an easy task like this can raise you in rank.

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Later, Fiona and I have got to the forest where it was reported twelve logs were there, and they need to be transported to the nearest sawmill, which is at one hundred to two hundred steps from our current location If I have to consider what Fiona said to me as we looked at the damaged logs.

We got at the damaged logs and as we looked at their state, we can see they are in not so bad state as I thought. They are decently cut and can be used to be cut at the sawmill to create sources for fire, to constructions, toys and wands.

Foremost, we have to calculate the length of the carriage we have taken. And to do, I jump into the carriage and walk a straight line, counting my steps to see how long is the carriage how we should cut the logs if they are bigger than the carriage length. I count ten big steps.

"So about seven meters." responds Fiona to me after I told her the number of steps I took. "Good thing we've bought the sword."

Fiona takes the handle of her giant sword, and she goes to the first log. When she got there, I tag along, climb the log, and walked a straight line to it while I am counting my steps. As I got at the end of the log, it took six big steps of mine. Fiona goes to the other one, and I follow her, and does the same thing I was doing to the first one. This one however, was eleven steps, and Fiona took the sword, and cut the log into two. And we go to the third one, and we are doing the same thing to the other trees laying there.

Later, after we cut the twelve and the last log in half because it measured thirteen steps, we proceed to take all the logs from there, and carrying them into the carriage. I took the ones who weren't so hard to carry, the one that measured only three or five steps, while Fiona is carrying at three big logs on her shoulders.

This loading of the carriage took us some time because we had to position these logs into some kind of way to make them stable and not fall from the carriage. And we managed to put all of the logs who were supposed to be only twelve, but they are now sixteen. They weren't that heavy for the carriage who managed to carry them for about one clock to the sawmill we had to deliver it.

When we got there, the man, who is in charge of the sawmill saw the logs on the carriage, and walk to Fiona, he looked at the logs for a few moments, then at me for a brief of second, and looked at Fiona.

"On the parchment it says there were twelve logs. I see there are sixteen of them." says the owner of the Sawmill.

"You see." responds Fiona. "There were some of them who measured much more than the length of the carriage, and so, we decided to cut them."

"Aha." responds the Owner. "Can you hand me the parchment with the task?"

"Sure thing." responds Fiona, handing to the man a parchment with the task from the Royal Palace.

The man took the parchment, he looked at it carefully. He takes a goose feather from his pocket, with ink on it, and he signs the parchment, he hands it to Fiona, and he tells her to wait here for the reward. The owner goes inside a small shack for a few seconds, then he came back to us, and handed a bag of coins.

"The reward for the tasks you two has pulled it off. Thank you! And I hope we will work again." he said with a smile as we get back on the carriage and Fiona drives it to the Capital.