Chapter 18: Rosalind - A Discovery

Chapter 18 Deep Dive

Outline:

Rosalind is almost done with the book
The book began with the old tribes - Rosalind finds it boring
She's then immersed with uprisings and rebellions and stories of larger-than-life warriors
The faded ink gave her a headache so she stops reading at night
She uses the evenings to learn every flag, standard, and crest PLUS the face of the 42 lords
She won't give up - she will be queen
Rosalind watches from the towers as each morning a fresh batch of men go into county Stonehill to go north for the apple
She hopes they don't survive the Shadow Woodlands
Rosalind remembers Lilla and Esabel gushing over a book of love spells
She wonders of the same book has a spell to give the interlopers hermeroids or hay fever
Rosalind mulls it over as a garrison not much older than her rides past the castle
Two days later, a later summer storm rolls in and Rosalind is thrilled that there are no new men
Shes in such a good mood she: chased 3 different cats, visited the stable boy, pulled Mathild's hair, and dropped fleas into Sir Arthor’s bread
She retreats to her room with cheese
She lays on her stomach reading the book, keeping pillow and embroidry to hide it
Rosalind finds the pages on Ahmenebar
Ahmenebar traveled 60 days and nights eating soup of thorns
Ahmenebar finds the cliffs and a a small, withered tree that burned, though it did not char
He plucked the first golden apple - that grew and noticed that it shone brightly and glittered like the sun and glowed like the moon
Rosalind doesn't know a place like this in Ludo
She will need maps and help
Rosalind places her hand on the page
There a knock at the door and Rosalind hides the book
Mathild tumbles into her room to warn her to hide
Roland and Arthor ate half the flea loaf before realizing
Rosalind doesn't need telling twice