08-18-2014, 04:38 PM
Renata watched horrified as two guards drew near to the cart which held Cecily to inspect its contents. "Wait!" she called, jumping off her horse and running over to the cart just as one of the men put his hand on the cloth, preparing to tear it off. "That cloth needs to stay in place."
"What? Why?" the guard asked, raising an eyebrow and pausing. "That doesn't exactly award you any points."
"It— It's a statue of Our Lady. I'm a servant of the Church of Sanctity, you see, escorting this statue to Pherae..."
"You're holding up the line," the armed guard mentioned from behind the unarmed one.
"Which is why I'm trying to explain this as quickly as possible," Renata continued. "Once it is sent off, a statue of our blessed lady must not have eyes laid upon it until it is received by the bishop in residence at its destination."
"Now that you mention it, it does look kind of like there's a person in there," the unarmed guard replied, running a hand along Cecily's concealed foot to feel around it.
"See, this knight is our escort," Renata said, gesturing toward Roland with one hand while trying to lightly nudge the guard's grasp away with the other. "He's already confirmed that the statue is legitimate. And also received the order that it must remain concealed during transit."
It was then that Renata noticed the armed guard giving her an obvious, stink-eyed stare, although the man's lance was still in a relaxed position, so it was hard to tell whether it was genuine suspicion or just an impatient personality. The unarmed one looked as though he could be swayed to letting them through more easily, but would just one of the guards agreeing be enough?
"What? Why?" the guard asked, raising an eyebrow and pausing. "That doesn't exactly award you any points."
"It— It's a statue of Our Lady. I'm a servant of the Church of Sanctity, you see, escorting this statue to Pherae..."
"You're holding up the line," the armed guard mentioned from behind the unarmed one.
"Which is why I'm trying to explain this as quickly as possible," Renata continued. "Once it is sent off, a statue of our blessed lady must not have eyes laid upon it until it is received by the bishop in residence at its destination."
"Now that you mention it, it does look kind of like there's a person in there," the unarmed guard replied, running a hand along Cecily's concealed foot to feel around it.
"See, this knight is our escort," Renata said, gesturing toward Roland with one hand while trying to lightly nudge the guard's grasp away with the other. "He's already confirmed that the statue is legitimate. And also received the order that it must remain concealed during transit."
It was then that Renata noticed the armed guard giving her an obvious, stink-eyed stare, although the man's lance was still in a relaxed position, so it was hard to tell whether it was genuine suspicion or just an impatient personality. The unarmed one looked as though he could be swayed to letting them through more easily, but would just one of the guards agreeing be enough?