In the open space at the town center, the crowd gathered like ants, buzzing with curiosity and fear as they sized up the knights in black robes standing neatly in the middle of the square.
The knights from Avalon Castle mostly wore ornate winged helmets, wielding long-handled weapons as they stood silently and solemnly beside the legendary Baron Leon.
Although the mayor diligently brought a stylish high-backed chair for the unexpectedly visiting lord, the people noted that the lord did not sit but rather had a handsome knight in a gray-white battle robe with a red eagle emblem hang a strange "iron ball frame" and "helmet" on the back of the chair.
Soon, at the mayor's call, the town militia gathered every child, between roughly ten to sixteen years old, from both inside and outside the town, regardless of whether they were boys or girls.
