the middle aged man looked at his people woman children old and sick all tired from the long journey the man then looked at the knight "sir may i ask what will happen to us ?" the knight looked at him for a second and then turned his gaze back " the only order that we were given besides letting you inside was to feed you nothing more "

the man couldn't believe that a noble will feed them for free the knight stopped "your group will stay here and wait for 5 minutes until we bring the food do you understand ?"

"yes sir i understand yes " the man saw that the knight was friendly so he was more comfortable speaking to the knight

"all of you we will stay here for some time " the people started to sit down

a woman let her child to sit down the boy around 5 looked at his mother "mom im hungry can we eat ? " the woman looked at her child she tried to hide her emotions but she couldn't do it anymore she hugged her young child "im sorry please forgive me my child im sorry im sorry " she couldn't stop crying "mom im sorry im not hungry don't cry mom im sorry "

another old man looked at his two adult sons and then he looked at his hands " how did i end up like that ? everything was going good and then..................." the sons looked at their father "im sorry my sons its my fault i couldn't give you a home and you lost your mother too its all because of my failure as a father " his children tried to stop their father but the man had broke down after a long time of torture many people had the same experience losing a mother father son and brother

a knight looked around and shouted " greeting , make a line right away we are going to feed you today make10 lines each will be in front of the knights "

no one moved they just stared at the knight most of them couldn't believe that a noble will feed them most thought that the noble was playing games with them other thought that they will be fed to be sold as slaves so no one dared to go near it

the knight who was the leader wasn't an idiot he knew what the commoners had in mind but he had orders to be kind to them "what are you doing come to eat aren't you hungry ?"

"mom will we eat ? " the woman just hugged her son another young man looked at the knight with hatred he got up and walked near him the boy seem to want to die at least to the people "you want us to eat how funny where were you when the bandits were burning our homes were were you when they took woman with them and killed children ? you are going to kill me now aren't you i don't care i have no family no home no hope just do it fast "

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the knight looked at the boy "i was back to my motherland with my lord when the lords changed i came with the ew lord into this land and i fought the bandits and won under the new lords command" the knight was stone cold but the boy could feel compassion then the knight took a bowl of food and gave it at the boy

the boy looked at the knights helmet he couldn't see his face just the eyes then at the food "so there is a new lord i see " the boy walked back and started to eat his food

slowly the people started to come the people started to realized both groups of people were from the same place

"father father how have you been "

"sister i thought that i will never see you again "

"honey honey, my child here is your father "

the knight looked at the people "hmm this is going better then i thought " the people were eating , most of them eat another plate

"is was so good i haven' eaten anything in days "

"i never thought that the lord will feed us "

"yes the new lord must be a good man how old is he ? "

"who knows the knights are friendly but i wouldn't dare to ask "

the people started to hear horses las had recover quite a lot but he didn't want to go with a horse as he did with the battle in the past so he took a carriage the people looked at the knights and the carriage

"isn't that the flag of the lord "

"yes this must be the flag of the helstain house but why "

"a noble coming here why "

the flag of the helstain territory the red flag with the golden dragon and the two griffins in each side

the people started to walk towards the carriage all the people kneeled no one dared to to look up las got out he looked around children sick and old all of them in their knees

las looked around "rise my vassals " the people got up all of them looking at las no one dared to speak but all of them thought the same thing [isn't that a child is he the lord ???????????]

las looked around and spoke in a stone cold tone "i heard that there are two groups who are the leaders " two men came forward the knight from before spoke to the lord "my lord both groups seem to be from the same place they just split in the way "

"hmmmm i see good " las looked at the two men both middle aged "so i learned that you run away from the territory and now you came back "

both men started to tremble "am i right ?" the men fell to their knees their heads hitting the ground "please my lord forgive your foolish vassals "

"get up i don't want to hurt you where do you come from ?" the men were still scared but they had no choice but to answer "my lord all of us are from a series of towns in the forest to the north east of the capital most of us were making a living by chopping wood and making planks or furniture" when las heard that he started to laugh "hahaahahhahahahahah perfect perfect and you run because of the bandits but why did you came back i never heard of a noble house who lets its population leave the knights from you new villages would have hunted you down so how did you came back ? its normal to take you in after all the houses of orberg and elberg have a lot of fertile land so they can feed you and then use you to farm but why did they let you go ? "