The Parfit Gentil Knight, His Squire, the Squire's Lady and The Evil Taskmaster Big Brown Charles
Lady Amanda
had fleeced her Fine Flouncy Curls and returned to her Blonde Boyish Bob. The Parfait Gentile Knight was busy Becoming
a dragon and eating (no Smaug no) with Princes. He was beginning to get bored
and the whole empire knew what happened the last time he got bored. His hair grew longer and curlier as his
patience worn thinner and sharper. His faithful squire who had been beside him
for many of his adventures was away doing some private work for a consultant of
the empire. The squire had but one more
task to finish, this time for his overlord. There was a small squabble between the pair of
lifelong friends over this assignment when their unthinking, overbearing,
taskmaster, the Big Brown Charles, decided that they would both fence against
the Best fencers in the world for a championship. But in the final round if it came to a match
between The Knight and his Squire it would be declared a draw. More importantly,
no one would be named champion. If BBC
decided, this it would happen. He was
their overlord and more importantly the person who could decide their life, as
far as it goes. He decided whether they
got jobs, how much they
got paid, when they worked, even whether they could take jobs outside his
little empire. When the day of the big
fencing match came, people came from all over the world and from outside the
kingdom to see the squire and the knight.
After all the fuss the taskmaster had made it seemed the Kingdom was not
that big and the world was plenty big enough for two World class Fencers. In fact the Squire and the Knight each had a
different approach to fencing. One
brought a more disciplined approach and one was looser and free flowing. One was more agile and one more ridged and inclined
to stick to the set rules. In the end,
it did not matter. Both went out and
conquered the world and brought back so many riches that the taskmaster Big
Brown Charles relented on his threats that they would never work in his kingdom
again. He allowed them to quickly continue
their travels as a Knight and squire errant, solving the puzzles of the Kingdom
and never again threatened to separate the pair.
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