CHAPTER 6 Patrols
She soon rallied her group of soldiers and move on in the direction of the forest.
Upon entering the forest it looked normal despite the swampy ground farther into the muck and trees. ( Well now that we are here I should set up patrols... I need to find what number I want to go
out into the forest at a time.) She thought to herself while Fred kept trailing on. The trees started getting thicker the further they went into the forest. once they enter a little clearing surrounded by the forest she pulled back on the reigns bringing Fred to a halt. She turn Fred around to addressed the group of soldier. Her cape started fluttering in the slight breeze her stern gaze resting on the soldiers. " Listen up! We will set up camp here. We will organize patrols, is there any high ranking soldier here? I would like you to help organize patrols." She waited letting her words seep into the crowd. Low and behold a single hand lifted up in the crowd of 30. She nodded and the said
" Soldier come over here. The rest of you set up the camp. Do you lot understand?" she raised her voice. " YES MA'MA!" The soldiers called out and began taking all the supplies to construct the camp. Elizabeth sighed and hopped off of Fred and grabbed his reigns in her hand. She began walking towards a tree, a soldier started to run up to her. This startled Fred he reared up off the ground. " Easy boy. Your okay! Its okay!" Elizabeth frantically tried to calm him. " Ah! I'm so sorry I must have startled him." The soldier apologized and started to come closer. " Don't come any closer! He doesn't like new people. Easy boy... Your okay" the soldier froze where he was, Fred started to calm down he was breathing hard " Fred... clam down." she stroked his neck " Your alright... I'm here don't worry...." once he was all the way clamed down she turned to face the soldier " Sorry bout that he gets nervous around new people..." she explained giving a worried smile. " Oh no Ma'ma its my fault!" he quickly bowed his head apologetically. " Its not your fault. You had no way of knowing how he would react.... Your the soldier that raise your hand correct? State your name and your ranking." her gaze stiffened on him as he gave her his name and rank.
" I am Dalton Summers In ranking I am currently Lieutenant General"
He said with a small smile. Elizabeth nodded and started to speak " Well... Lieutenant Summers"
She looked him in the eye with a stern gaze " I need to tie Fred up to a tree or something. We will talk about patrols after I'm done." She turned around and started walking away Fred walking beside her. Her cape swaying from side to side. After she was gone Dalton held his chest with one hand he couldn't believe how nerve wracking it was to speak to her. Though she didn't seem like most noble's still.... Even though she seems nice... She is still... A noble.
She returned to Dalton after she tied Fred up
" Lieutenant Summers, I've got a question. I haven't been able to decide how many of our soldiers we should put on a patrol at once we have thirty men including you. Can you give me some options on our situation." she asked while watching the twenty-nine soldiers working on setting the camp up. " Hmm well I'm not really good at math...But I don't believe its possible to spilt up thirty soldiers in half. If this wasn't the cause I would have said spilt the thirty in half and have two patrols one at night and one during the day sense these men need their rest." he explain his reasoning and seemed deep in thought. Elizabeth got an idea " Hey tell me what you think of this idea what if we keep some soldiers at camp to guard it? keeping the number of patrol soldiers even so we could spilt it in half. Then we would be able to do the night and day patrols like you suggested." She told him of her thought. he glanced at her and thought about it for a moment " That could work... we could take four soldiers to stay here and guard the camp that would leave us with uh...." Dalton was lost in thought once again. Elizabeth looked at him and spoke " That would leave us with twenty-six
soldiers." He looked up quickly flustered " I-I knew that." his face was red by now. Elizabeth looked at him for a moment studying him she never noticed it before while talking to him but he had some pretty cute features. He still looked fairly young he had a round face. Pretty round green eyes a button nose. He only looked around eight-teen maybe twenty-three at that. His hair was all over his head going in every direction, the color of honey. ( He looks really young. How did he climb the ranks so fast?) she thought to her self and spoke " Well any way...I think I agree with the number you wish to keep at camp." she said nodding to herself " Can I trust you to set up the patrols?" she asked watching for his reaction. He looked up a bit shocked but quickly answered " Y-yes ma'ma"
She watched as he went to set up patrols. She casted her gaze to the ground and sighed.
( At least the burning in my scar has stopped.) She thought to herself unintentionally touching her neck. she looked up and gazed at the sky night fall was enclosing the sky with stars though it was still lit from the sun. ( I want to get a look around the area sometime... It wouldn't hurt to go by my self would it?) she looked towards the group of soldiers talking as they organized the patrol's.
( Ill do it sometime tomorrow its getting dark.) she touched the eye patch covering the eye she so hated.
( I should take it off before going to bed...)