The turned back and saw a young man holding a sword across their throats. He boomed " Explain pheasants, what are you all doing here!"

Sarah exclaimed, " Hey watch what you are saying, we are not pheasants, we're just children! We are here embarking on our expedition."

"Return to your villages! This castle is not a place for children! " the man retorted when all of a sudden a loud "BANG" was heard in the foreground. Turning quickly towards the noise, the stranger's face turned a curious pale pink. "Hurry" he whispered to the bewildered children "follow me". Moving quickly, he led them into a cell, hastily throw a blanket over them and walked away. They could barely see what was happening and so strained their ears to catch whatever noise that may come their way. It was not long before the heard the young stranger spoke again. " Mistress the dungeon is clear.", he announced formally, "The disturbance must be made by some spirits. There isn't any warm blooded creatures in the dungeons"

Sarah fumed with anger upon hearing that they were called warm blooded objects. To be carelessly classified as a creature, along with beasts; she was about to stand up and confront the strangers but was restrained just in time by Jenson. 'Shhhh, don't move Sarah, they'll hear us!" Just at this moment, they saw a shadow fall over the blanket. They covered each other's mouth to prevent themselves from shouting out in fear.

The young man drifted in front of the shadow. "Madame, you should return to the palace. These dungeons are not suitable for a royal blood." Agreeing with his suggestion, the lady's shadow slowly faded away from the blanket. Sarah and Jenson heaved a sigh of relief, they were safe, for now. But their joy was too soon. They observed another shadow approach nearer and nearer to them and slowly the blanket was lifted away from their faces. Their eyes opened wide in fear . They looked up to look into, what the children thought, what were to be the last face they would ever see and heaved a sigh of relieve to realise it was just their young stranger.

"I have not introduce myself, my name is Edison Cooper, the Second Knight of Brickvale. The lady you heard is Abigale Knighting -Princess of Brickvale."

"A knight!" Sarah gasped "An actual knight!"

"You look awfully young to be a knight" Jenson exclaimed in awe.

"Believe me, young man" Edison answered gravely, "I have anything but age on my side. I will be a 190 years old this year."