Historical Storyteller
Four Thousand Club
Earl William Regan
Currently alone.
And so the mighty Earl has a chance encounter with the legendary horse Faraday...
William heard a deafening roar echo across the realm. Was another demon coming his way? Was it as bad as the juggernaut he faced back then or worse? Whatever it was, this was not good. God, he had to make his escape as soon as possible and the duel be damned. It would be postponed for now unless this stick of a demon decided to have a go at it. The demon itself was fazed by this noise as well and it looked quite shaken. This was bad. If a demon was afraid of what was out there then he best make his escape.
"We'll... we'll deal with this later, demon!" said William who had turned immediately to the other direction and ran.
But how would he escape? He couldn't just run all the way to Goldenview, the people might find out what he'd killed some of the guards and he'd be executed there. And he couldn't just run deeper into the forest on foot, if the demon spotted him it would be over. No, he needed a faster means of transportation, something that could carry his ass over the entire continent if that thing chased him. He needed a horse, but there was a problem.
It was not as if a horse would appear out of nowhere after all this commotion. Every horse, including William's own warhorse had fled somewhere else for their own safety. William cursed his luck and damned God for his endless misfortunes. But in the next moment, it would seem that William was infinitely luckier than he had thought, for he had found not only a horse to escape on, it was a horse unlike any other he had ever seen.
He spotted a magnificently decorated warhorse stride headway into the forest. The horse was riderless, and it may have gone looking for its master. Was it one of his knight's horses? No, this horse didn't seem familiar at all. It was probably one of the horses in Goldenview.
It didn't matter whoever owned this horse, this was his only chance of freedom. So he tried his luck once more.
"Hey, hey, hey!" Earl William ran towards the horse, he was covered in blood and there was panic in his voice, "I need a ride. There's this demon out there that's gonna eat everyone. Save me, please!" William did not know why he was talking to this horse, but he had been driven out of his mind earlier so he was crazy enough to try it. Hell, the horse seemed smart enough to understand his words anyway, so it wasn't a complete waste of breath.
@Jefferson