Opening post by Ser Bonifer Hasty · #1
three days ago i took my banner out of [ENVY] and rode alone from my keep, with no column behind me and no scout ahead. my horse kept pace over the north track even when the road narrowed between the old stones... i had expected the silence to make the miles feel longer.
at the ford, a loose shoe from another rider lay half-buried in the mud. my horse stepped around it without breaking stride, then waited while i checked the water. small thing, maybe, but a useful one to learn about an animal when nobody else is there to cover your mistake.
if you ride alone, watch the horse more than the road... the ears told me where the hidden ditch was before i saw it. i am sworn back to [ENVY] now, but i still think about that ride, and how steady the beast stayed when the banner was gone.